Hoffman v. Planters National Bank
Supreme Court of Virginia
■Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond, rendered March 9, 1900, in a proceeding hy motion for a judgment for money, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
Some time prior to May 9, 1898, Mrs. M. F. Woodruff applied to defendant in error, The Planters Rational Bank of Richmond, Va., for a loan of $600.00, and the hank refused to make it without a surety or endorser on the note to be given. Thereupon Mrs. Woodruff offered to give her sister-in-law, plaintiff in error, as surety or endorser, leaving with the hank the names of certain parties in Baltimore to he inquired of as to her financial standing. After inquiring of these parties, the bank agreed to accept plaintiff in, error as endorser, and thereupon, on May 9, 1898, it loaned to Mrs.…
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