Curtis v. Clarendon County

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

Allen Curtis and others, partners trading as Curtis & Sanger, of Boston and New York, were plaintiffs in the court below, and the county of. Clarendon, South Carolina, was defendant. We shall so refer to them here. The action was instituted to recover on four promissory notes, aggregating $34,177, executed by defendant. These notes were made payable to the Bank of Manning, of Manning, S. C., and were by it indorsed in blank without recourse. Plaintiffs alleged that they purchased them from the American Bank & Trust Company of Columbia, that that bank and the Bank of…