Jones v. Fourth National Bank

The Fourth National Bank sued Mrs. Emma L. Jones as maker and L. T. Jones, her husband, as indorser, upon a promissory note for $1,800, originally made to H. E. Weathers and by him indorsed to the bank. Mrs. Jones filed a plea in which she undertook to set up an offset of $1,500, which sum she alleged was derived from the sale of certain property belonging to her, and which she had turned over to her husband and codefendant to be taken by him to the bank and paid on her note, but which was applied by the bank and her husband upon a note owing it by .him. Upon the trial the plaintiff…