Caton v. Andalusia Nat. Bank

The plaintiff in the circuit court, as transferee, sued the defendant on a negotiable promissory note, and as appears from the opinion of the Court of Appeals, defendant sought to show payment to the payee as agent of the plaintiff, and his evidence offered for that purpose was rejected by the circuit court. In affirming that this ruling was free from error, the Court of Appeals stated the rule to be that:

“If the payee be- shown to be the agent of the transferee to accept payment of the paper, and payment be shown to have been made to the payee as such authorized agent the case would be…