Graham v. Marks & Co.

Simmons, Chief Justice.

It appears from the record that Mrs. Eliza J. Graham, the plaintiff in error, and one C. M. Davis, executed a joint promissoiy note, payable to M. Eoote, Jr., attorney for Brown Brothers. The note was indorsed by Eoote and by one L. E. Davis, and was negotiated to Marks & Company, and they brought suit upon it in a justice’s court against the joint makers, and against Eoote, attorney for Brown Brothers. At the appearance term, the defendant Mrs. Graham filed several pleas which it is unnecessary now to notice, and at the trial term she moved to dismiss the case on the…