Buck v. Bank of State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint on note. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. September term, 1897.
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
The Bank of the State of Georgia brought its action against Buck as maker, and Scott as indorser, upon a promissory note for $2,000, the note stating on its face that it *661was given for the purchase-money of land. Scott made no defense. Buck filed a special plea in which he alleged, among other things, that, although he signed the note as maker, he was in fact simply a surety and received no benefit on account of the note; that this was known to the bank at the time it took the note as security for a note for $1,500, made contemporaneously to the plaintiff by Scott; that on the $1,500 note the…
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