Jennings-Heywood Oil Syndicate v. Home Oil & Development Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Edmund Denis Miller, Judge. Action by the Jennings-Heywood Oil Syndicate against the Plome Oil & Development Company, Limited, and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The Home Oil & Development Company, as principal, and certain named individuals, as sureties, are sued on three notes given to represent the credit portion of the price of the transfer by the plaintiff to the said company of a certain oil and mineral lease.
The sureties plead that by reason of the failure of the plaintiff to protest the first maturing of the notes sued on, and by reason of time having been granted to the principal debtor, they have been released from their obligation on said notes. These defenses *385have no merit, and apparently are not insisted on.
All the defendants plead that…
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