Deardorff v. Foresman

Action by the appellee, upon a promissory note, against Deeds, Deardorff & Lehman. Deeds suffered a default. The other defendants answered in two paragraphs. First, that at the date of the note in suit, Deeds, who was insolvent, applied to them to execute the note with him, as his sureties, to the plaintiff, which they refused to do; that he fraudulently represented to them that if they would sign the note, he could procure as co-sureties with them eleven other responsible men, who are named, and that he would not deliver the note to the plaintiff until such signatures were procured. That he…