Puckett v. Griffith

Gr. C. Puckett filed a hill of complaint seeking to have set aside, for fraud in procurement, the entry of his name as stayer of a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace. This judgment was based on a note on which one Cantrell was principal and Griffith and Allen were sureties. Within the time allowed by law,. Cantrell, the principal judgment debtor, went to complainant Puckett and requested him to become stayor of that judgment. Puckett declined to stay for Cantrell alone, whereupon Cantrell told Puckett that the two sureties, as well as himself, desired that the judgment be stayed.…