Gothrupt v. Williamson

Suit by Williamson, against Gothrupt and Henry J. Kline, upon a note executed by the defendants to the plaintiff.

Kline made default, and Gothrupt answered. A demurrer was sustained to the second paragraph of Gothrupt’s answer, and there was final judgment for the plaintiff'.

Gothrupt alone appeals, and has assigned for error the sustaining of the demurrer to the second paragraph of his answer.

The paragraph of answer, as originally filed, to which the demurrer was sustained, alleged, in substance, that Gothrupt signed the note as surety for Kline; that, when he signed it, it was blank as to…