Sims v. Kline

E. N. Sims, W. P. Kretschmar, and Harley Metcalfe, as trustees, brought suit ag’ainst the appellee, M. Kline, on three promissory notes for ten thousand dollars each, payable to the Fisher Cotton Company, or bearer, dated May 18, 1921, and maturing six, twelve and eighteen months after date, respectively, payable at the Commercial Savings Bank of Greenville, Miss., which notes were indorsed in blank by the Fisher Cotton Company.

It was alleged that the notes passed into the hands of the trustees and at the time of the filing of the declaration that said notes were past due; that before the…