Hodges v. Gillespie, Shields & Co.

Suit was brought against a husband and his wife on two promissory notes signed by them apparently as joint makers. The wife pleaded that she signed the notes as surety for her husband. It appeared, from the evidence, that the husband was a merchant and that the notes were given for the purchase-price of certain merchandise which had been shipped to him. The evidence shows that the wife had no interest in the business and received no part of the consideration for which the notes were given, the goods having been shipped directly to the husband and disposed of in a stock of merchandise owned by…