Catron v. Jones

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The appeal is from a judgment on six notes aggregating the principal sum of $1,575 and the enforcement of a mortgage in favor of trustees for the depositors of the defunct National Bank of John A. Black, of Barbourville, Kentucky, against J. F. Catron and others, who were his sureties. A reversal of the judgment is sought upon three grounds, namely, insufficiency of the petition, premature trial, and error in denying relief from usury.

The original of the several notes sued on had been executed from time to time, and at least one of them…