Guaranty Income Life Ins. v. Ball

This is a suit on two promissory notes of $108.85 each, dated April 3, 1929, and payable August 1, 1929, made and signed, in solido, by B. I-I. and H. P. Ball, the defendants herein. Judgment is prayed for against both defendants, in solido, for the aggregate amount of both notes, with 8 per cent, per annum interest from August 1, 1929, and 15 per cent, as attorney’s fees.

The defendants are brothers who plead that the notes are null and void for want of consideration. Their defense is that these notes were given in payment of the premium of two policies of life insurance taken by each of them…