Legal Opinion

Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. Wilcox County, Ga.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided November 21, 1924No. 4363PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a decree dismissing a bill in equity filed in September, 1923, by the appellant against the appellee, Wilcox county, Ga. The appellant was the plaintiff in a suit against the same county on an alleged note executed by the county’s officials in September, 1917, which suit resulted in a judgment in favor of the county; the instrument sued on being held to be void, on the ground that the borrowing it purported to evidence contravened a provision of section 7 of article 7 of the Constitution of Georgia. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. v. Wilcox County, Ga. (D.…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Maddox v. County of RandolphSupreme Court of Georgia · 1880
  2. Butts County v. WrightSupreme Court of Georgia · 1911
  3. Butts County v. WrightSupreme Court of Georgia · 1915
  4. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. of New York v. Wilcox County, Ga.District Court, S.D. Georgia · 1922
  5. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. of New York v. Wilcox CountyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1923

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Sims v. RoweCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1995

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