Stevens v. Barbour

This is a suit by attachment at law on the ground of nonresidence, to collect an indebtedness which had accrued in favor of the appellees by reason of their endorsement and payment of a promissory note executed by B. J. Dean in favor of a bank at Yazoo City for a loan of money. The note was executed on December 5,1940, by Dean in his own name, but the declaration in attachment alleges that the three nonresident defendants, A. L. Stevens, Walter Tront and R. J. Dean, were operating a certain drilling enterprise as partners during that month in the name of R. J. Dean, and it is therefore stated…