Durham v. Meyer

— On June 18, 1925, the defendant in error executed to E. C. Myers three negotiable promissory notes, and simultaneously executed to the payee a real estate mortgage to secure the same. The notes were in the usual form. Subsequently the payee and holder of the notes, E. C. Myers, died intestate in the State of Georgia. Administration was had there on his estate in the Court of Ordinary, Chatham County, Georgia, a court of general jurisdiction in that state, and one John G. Kennedy was appointed and qualified as adminstrator thereof.

Two of the notes held by Myers at the time of his death, were…