Owings v. Davenport

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Justice J. Wm. Thurmond.

This action was commenced in January, 1925, in the Greenville County Court on the note hereinafter set.out in full and came on for trial March 1, 1926, before Judge Ansel and a jury, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount demanded.

The complaint is in the usual form against an indorser on a promissory note.

The answer sets up a number of defenses, to wit, a general denial; that the defendant was a surety only on the note, and it was so agreed, understood and intended between the parties; that at its…