DeLoach v. Sikes

1. Where several persons became sureties by indorsement of a promissory note, and upon failure by the maker to pay the note at maturity it was sued on by the payee and holder to judgment against *40the maker and the sureties, and thereafter the note and the judgment were transferred to one of the sureties who paid them off; and where it appears that the judgment was rendered during the pendency of bankruptcy proceedings and after the maker had been declared a bankrupt but before his discharge, and it being possible that he might have obtained his discharge and pleaded it against enforcement of…