Culbreath v. Guiterman, Rosenfield & Co.

The reference in the notes to the contract destroyed the negotiability of the notes and permitted the makers to interpose any defense that might arise by reason of breaches of the contract by the payee. At any rate, evidence of such breaches was admissible. Elmore County Bank v. Avant, 189 Ala. 418,66 So. 509; Continental B. T. Co. v. Times Pub. Co.,142 La. 209, 76 So. 612, L.R.A. 1918B, 632; 8 C. J. 730; State Bank v. Cape Girardeau, etc., Co., 172 Mo. App. 662,155 S.W. 1111; Owen v. Moore, 14 Ala. 640; 1 Randolph on Com. Paper (2d Ed.) § 197; 3 R. C. L. 1024.

Baldwin Murphy, of Andalusia,…