Leach v. Mattix

The appellee, as administratrix of James Mattix, sued the appellants, John M. Leach, William H. Sumption and Charles H. Leach, on a promissory note dated April 2,1877. On the issues as they stood in the first trial judgment was rendered for the defendants, the present appellants. On appeal to the Appellate Court that judgment was reversed and the cause remanded to the trial court. Mattix, Admx., v. Leach, 16 Ind. App. 112.

New issues were made in the case when it went back to the trial court. John M. Leach was the principal in the note, and the other defendants were his sureties. He had been…