Harrison Machine Works v. Reigor

Willie, Chief Justice.

Eliza M. Hicks and J. Eeigor executed to Harrison & Co. two promissory notes each for $700, one payable *90January 1, 1879, and the other January 1, 1880, and each containing an agreement to the effect that a failure to pay that note when due should mature both notes.

This suit was commenced upon these two notes more than four years after the maturity of the one first falling due, and the statute of limitations having been pleaded, the question is: Was suit upon the last barred?

That the effect of the agreement was to authorize suit or give a right of action upon the last…