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