Anderson v. Bank of Tupelo

This cause presents an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of Lee county ordering the appellants, as agents of the banking department of the state of Mississippi, to issue appellee a certificate of indebtedness on its guaranty fund for the sum of five hundred dollars with interest.

The facts upon which this decree was entered are undisputed, and are as follows: On December 20, 1922, *357W. M. B. Cox, president of the People’s Bank of Baldwyn, Miss., presented to the cashier of the Bank of Tupelo for payment an instrument of writing, a copy of which is here set out in full, Cox stating at…