Matthews v. Matthews

There are three defendants in this equity suit. The first is father-in-law to the plaintiff, the second her husband, and the third the national bank, which is payee and holder of the joint and several negotiable promissory note of the other defendants.

Appeal is by the individual defendants. The decree appealed from commanded the payee to call for payment of the note; it further provided that in the event of default of payment, resort be had to securities owned, respectively, by the makers of the note, held by the payee as collaterals; property belonging to the plaintiff to apply to any unpaid…