Alexander v. North Carolina Savings Bank & Trust Co.

Pee Cubiam.

This action was brought to recover tbe amount of a promissory note, two hundred and fifty dollars, which had been given by the plaintiff to the defendant in paid payment of the purchase price of stock in the defendant company, and which was afterwards paid to it by the plaintiff, and also to have surrendered for cancellation a note for a like amount given by the plaintiff to the defendant for the balance of the purchase money. Plaintiff had contracted to buy the stock and to pay for it five hundred dollars, but, as he alleged, upon the express condition that liability on the notes…