Case ID: ga_148/html/0684-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McLean, trustee, et al. v. Speer.
    
      No. 991.
    January 15, 1919.
    Equitable petition. Before Judge Lawrence (of the city court of Baxley). Appling superior court. May 14, 1918.
    
      W. W. Bennett, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      Padgett & Watson, contra.
   Hill, J.

1. Where a bank, in the exercise of a power of sale contained in a mortgage held by it as collateral security for a note made by the mortgagor, sells the land, and thereafter the purchaser, on the strength of a deed executed by the bank as attorney in fact for the mortgagor, institutes suit against the mortgagor to recover possession of the land, the bank has no such pecuniary interest in the suit as would disqualify relatives of the stockholders of the bank as jurors from trying the case.

2. Some of the grounds of the amended motion for new trial were abandoned, and the others are without merit.

3. The verdict for the plaintiff was supported by the evidence, and there was no error in refusing a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.