Gardner v. Barnett

John R. Barnett brought this action in the circuit court of Bradley county, against Solomon Gardner and Joseph Richey, on two joint and several promissory notes, executed to him on the thirteenth of May, 1875, by Mary M. Gardner (not sued) and the defendants.

At the return term, defendants filed a motion, stating that the notes sued on were executed by them jointly with Mary M. Gardner, for the purchase-money of certain lands described therein; that she was jointly interested with them in the subject-matter of the suit, and, in fact, the principal in the notes, and praying for an order to make…