First National Bank v. Board of Public Instruction

The judgment of the Court below entered upon sustaining defendant’s demurrer to plaintiff’s declaration in a suit brought to enforce promissory notes executed by the Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, in consideration of the purchase price of lands for a school site, should be affirmed on the authority of Babcock v. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, 104 Fla. 693, 140 Sou. Rep. 644, decided at the last term, unless the fact that plaintiff, being a bona fide third person holder of the notes for value, has a greater right to enforce same than did the original payee.

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