Hollowell v. Hodges

Opinion by

Judge Lindsay:

The defense relied upon by the appellant by his answer in this case falls very far short of that set up by Hamblin in the case of Hamblin v. McCallister, 4 Bush 418. In that case the surety offered to give the payee of the note a written notice to sue, but he expressly waived it, saying that he did not require it. That he waived a written and accepted the verbal notice as sufficient. This amounted to an express and unmistákable waiver of his statutory right to require the notice to be in writing, and as the law then stood he was estopped from claiming that the notice…