Fowler v. Davis

Davis sued Fowler in the city court of Atlanta on two promissory notes signed by Fowler and one J. G. Thurmond, dated December 21, 1900, and due November 1, 1901, and being each for the sum of $80. The defendant pleaded that in an action previously tried between the same parties in Pickens superior court, the same being an action for an accounting, these notes had been included in the accounting, and a judgment rendered in favor of Davis, and that Fowler had paid off and discharged the same. Upon the trial the plaintiff introduced the notes, and the defend*550ant put in evidence the pleadings and…