Pyles v. Piedmont Mt. Airy Guano Co.
Supreme Court of Florida
Tbis case was decided by the court En Banc. Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Marion County. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
The Piedmont Mt. Airy Guano Company, a corporation, brought an action against Samuel R. Pyles in the circuit court for Marion county upon an endorsement of a note for $1142.30, dated July 1st, 1904, given by George Close to the plaintiff below.
Among the defenses interposed was that the notes sued on became mixed and mingled with other notes made to the defendant, and the endorsement, “was a result purely of accident, mistake and inadvertence,” and the defendant “did not then have any intention whatsoever of signing the said note.”
*350At the trial the plaintiff produced the note dated July 1st,…
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