96 Ga. 206 | Ga. | 1895
Defendants were original investors in the capital stock of the Americus Building & Loan Association, and, as subscribers to its stock, had issued to them a stock certificate for thirty shares of the capital stock of the association. Thereafter they became borrowers of the association and' from it obtained a loan of three thousand dollars. To secure the payment of this sum, they pledged as collateral their stock in the association, and, in addition thereto, entered into a bond in the sum of six thousand dollars,-secured by a deed to certain property, con
The other special pleas filed in this case, in aid of the plea of usury, to the effect that the association did not keep its books properly; made improper investments of its funds; was engaged in business other than a building and loan association business, were all too general in their nature to be considered by the court. No plea ■should be retained unless it present an issuable defense in such manner as would enable the court and jury intelligently to pass upon the issue presented by it. Tested by these rules, the court did not err in striking, upon ■oral demurrer, any of the several amendments to the general issue filed in this case. There was a plea of partial payment, which was retained by the court, but upon consideration of the admitted evidence in the case, the •court directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff — the payments claimed having already been allowed as credits in the account made by the plaintiff to the defendants.
Exception was further taken to the judgment of the
Let the judgment of the court below be Affirmed.