Goodwin v. Abilene State Bank

The views entertained by the majority of this court, as now constituted, on the different questions presented by this appeal, are such as to require that we write upon it as upon an original hearing. Suit was upon a promissory note executed by D. B. Cozart and W. C. Goodwin to the Abilene State Bank for the principal sum of $7,000. The note declared upon was the eighth renewal of an original note executed to the Guaranty State Bank. Goodwin alone has appealed from the judgment of the trial court. As a defense to the note, appellant, Goodwin, pleaded his suretyship and fraud on the part of the…