National State Bank of Mt. Pleasant v. Ricketts

The appellant bank instituted this suit on two promissory notes, each for the sum of $700, dated March 25, 1909, and maturing respectively one and two years after date, executed by the several defendants, and payable to L. M. Hartley, or his order. Defendants admitted the plaintiff's cause of action, except in so far as it may be defeated in whole or in part by the facts set up in their answer, and were thereby granted the privilege of opening and concluding the cause as to the evidence and argument. The defendants, appellees herein, alleged a partial failure of consideration; and that said…