Underwood v. Bass & Heard

Suit was brought by Bass and Heard, in a justice’s court, on promissory notes made by N. J. Edmondson, S. J. Edmondson, Reuben Underwood, and W. C. McWhorter. Reuben Underwood and W. C. McWhorter were served, and appeared and filed the following plea: (1) That said defendants were only sureties, and that said notes were without consideration as to them. (2) That the indebtedness for which said notes were given was incurred by N. J. & S. J. Edmondson; that’ the fact that these defendants were only sureties was well known to the plaintiffs at the time these notes were executed; that they were…