Hill v. Adams

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

This action was brought in the court below by the appellee, W. W. Adams, to recover the amount of a past due note, originally of $800.00, but reduced by payments to $690.00, on which he was surety for his son, M. B. Adams. The note was executed by the son to W. R. Hobdy in part payment of the purchase price of a 63 acre tract of land in Simpson county conveyed him by the latter and was secured by a vendor’s lien retained in the deed. The son after making the several small payments credited on the note died intestate, survived *225by Ms wife, Mary F.…