Duke Enterprises, Inc. v. Espy

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff brought suit on a note of which the defendant was the maker and which had been transferred and assigned to the plaintiff by Real Estate Concepts, Inc. The defendant in its answer denied that it was indebted to the plaintiff and set out the following defense: that the plaintiff was not a holder in due course of the note since as vice president and agent of Real Estate Concepts, he personally handled all aspects of the real estate transaction of which the execution of the note formed a part and was fully cognizant of the defenses of the maker of the note;…