United States v. Frost

BOOTLE, District Judge.

The question is whether the wife, sued with her husband on two promissory notes, has made good her defense of suretyship. The notes, one for $7,-000 dated September 18, 1952, the other for $500 dated June 17, 1953, are signed by Pansy Annell Frost, the wife, and Sidney F. Frost, the husband, ostensibly as makers, the wife signing first and the husband second on the larger note, and the husband first and the wife second on the smaller note. Both notes are payable to the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration. The husband makes no defense and the case is in…