Pitman v. Pitman

Candler, Justice.

On October 9, 1948, Pitman Manufacturing Company of Georgia, a Georgia corporation, gave Citizens & Southern National Bank a negotiable promissory note under seal for $10,000, which matured thirty days after its date. Alfred T. Pitman, W. D. Webb, and Herbert E. Williams each indorsed the note by simply writing his name without more on the back of it. The payee of the note by a written transfer, which it placed on the back of the note assigned it, without recourse or warranty, to E. W. Pitman. On September 21, 1955, E. W. Pitman brought a suit on the note in the Civil Court…