Farris' Executors v. Blue

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless—

Affirming.

The personal representative of J. A. Farris, deceased, sued J. H. Moore, J. W. Blue, and T. H. Cochran on a promissory note of $1,000, dated January 22, 1915. Moore failed to answer, and judgment was rendered against him by default. Blue and Cochran answered, alleging that Moore was principal, and they were only sureties on the note; that more than seven years had elapsed since its maturity; and they pleaded and relied on the seven-year statute of limitation in bar of a recovery. This pleading was controverted. 'Proof was taken on this issue,…