Hinkle v. Margerum

The appellant sued the appellees on certain promissory notes executed by the defendants to the plaintiff. The defendants filed an answer of several paragraphs, which need not be noticed in this opinion. They also filed a cross complaint, alleging, in substance, that Margerum was the principal in the notes, and Howard surety thereon; that the notes were given for the purchase-money in part for certain land described, sold and conveyed by Hinkle to Margerum by warranty deed, excepting from the covenants the lien of the congressional township school loan number 3, etc.; that Hinkle, at the time…