Parish v. Weed Sewing Machine Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Notice to produce Papers. Continuance. Corporations. Witness. Before Judge Hines. Bulloch Superior Court. April Term, 1887. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The Weed Sewing Machine Company, a corporation of Connecticut, brought an action of complaint upon a bond payable to it, against Parish, as principal, and several others as sureties. A breach of the bond was alleged, consisting in the failure to pay certain promissory notes which *683Parish had executed and delivered to the plaintiff, the bond being conditioned for the payment of all sums which might be in his hands, or become due and payable to the company.
He pleaded nil debet and payment, — payment simply, and payment specially by the delivery of certain notes which he…
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