Ruckersville Bank v. Hemphill
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Floyd Superior Court, July adjourned Term, 1S49. Tried before Judge Wright. The Ruekersville Bank recovered a judgment against James Hemphill, for a large sum of money.
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In Equity, in Floyd Superior Court, July adjourned Term, 1S49. Tried before Judge Wright. The Ruekersville Bank recovered a judgment against James Hemphill, for a large sum of money. Hemphill filed a bill, enjoining the collection of the fi. fa. alleging that he was one of the stockholders of the bank, and had paid in the sum of #1400; that when suit was brought on his note for money borrowed of the bank, he defended the same, and was induced to withdraw his defence on an agreement, that the bank would stay all proceedings until the 1st April, 1844, at which time they would come to a full and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
A bill was filed in the Superior Court of Floyd County, by James Hemphill, Madison Montgomery, Moses G. Bradbury, Wesley Shropshire and Charles Hemphill, slating that the complainant, James Hemphill, became a stockholder in the Ruckersville Bank, to the amount of $1400, and executed a mortgage of his land in the County of Floyd, to secure the balance, un^ler the provisions of the Act of 26th December, 1838, entitled “ an Act to authorize the business of banking, and to regulate the same.” Afterwards, the said James Hemphill, and the other…
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