Coats v. McKee

Suit upon a promissory note executed by the appellees, and payable to the appellant.

Á. number of the defendants to the action were defaulted-. An answer was filed by Golliver, one of the defendants below, alleging that he signed the note as surety for Melvin McKee and James J. Smiley, and that the appellant was informed of this fact; that the consideration of the note was' the loan of money to the said McKee and Smiley, and that *224without the knowledge of the defendant, Colliver, another note was taken from the borrowers for a certain sum of money as interest upon the note, at the rate of…