Linton v. Purdon

The plaintiff, as widow of John Linton deceased, and heretofore in community with him, and as natural tutrix of his children and hpirs, seeks to recover the amount of sundry promissory notes, drawn by the defendants, and which she alleges that she has been compelled to pay, as the endorser thereof. She states that her endorsements on the notes sued on, were procured to the defendants in lieu of those of her deceased husband, who had, during his life time, endorsed bills and notes for said defendants to a large amount, and that soon after the death of her said husband, she was applied to by…