Williams v. Stockstill

The appellee sued Nathaniel Smith and the appellant G. H. Williams in the Circuit Court of Pearl River County to recover on a promissory note executed and delivered to him by Nathaniel Smith as maker and by the appellant as an accommodation endorser, in the principal sum of $500, providing for interest and attorneys’ fees, dated April 8, 1952, and payable twelve months after its date. Smith made no defense to the suit.

The appellant defended on the ground that said note and a note for the principal sum of $250 of like date, tenor and effect, due six months after date, similarly signed and…