Hoxie v. Farmers & Mechanics National Bank

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

The appellee bank sued appellant as the executrix of John B. Hoxie, deceased, and 0. H. Silliman, M. 0. Hurley, J. P. Smith, B. A. Bogers, S. D. Eainey, Jr., B. H. Sellers, and others upon two negotiable promissory notes, one in the sum of $500, dated November 3, 1890, payable to the order of S. D. Eainey, Jr., cashier of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, signed “Hurley, Silliman & Co., by E. H. Sellers, agent,” and the other in the sum of $1338.28, dated December 31, 1890, payable and signed in the same manner.

The bank recovered a…