Knight v. Cooley
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM HUMPHREYS. Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Humphreys County to tbe Court of Civil Appeals and by certiorari to tbe Court of Civil Appeals from tbe Supreme Court.— Hon. J. W. Stout, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The bill of complaint in this canse was filed to have determined tbe order of liability inter sese on a nóte executed by complainants Knight and Gibbons and defendant Cooley, all of whom signed as if comakers.
Complainants claim: First, that they signed, as sureties, for Cooley, as principal, hnt the chancellor and the court of civil appeals concurred in finding the fact to the contrary, which concurrence concludes the matter in this court. State ex rel. v. Lee, 124 Tenn., 385, 136 S. W., 997.
A second insistence of complainants is: That after the note was executed Cooley assumed to pay the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State ex rel. Cannon v. LeeTennessee Supreme Court · 1911
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