Atkinson v. Stewart

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

These were three separate actions of assumpsit brought against Atkinson by the other above named parties respectively, each action being upon a single count for money paid and advanced for the defendant. And the question presented by the record is, whether and to what extent such actions can be maintained upon the following facts: a joint and several note for $1500, payable to the President, Directors & Co. of the Bank of Kentucky, and executed by R. S. Davis as principal and Stewart, Thayer, Chamberlain and Atkinson as sureties, having been…