Skinner v. Mahoney

This is a suit by the appellant, Mrs. JBettie J. Skinner, trustee, to recover from the appellee, Mrs. G. R. Mahoney, the amount of fifty thousand dollars, as evidenced by five notes for ten thousand dollars each, on the back of which notes Mrs. Mahoney had written her name in blank; the maker of the notes being Alice Mahoney Vincent, who had purchased a plantation from Mrs. Bettie J. Skinner, trustee, and executed the notes here involved as part payment on the purchase price of the plantation.

On December 21,1920, a few days prior to the maturity of the first one of the notes, the appellee,…