Hardin Supply Co. v. Parkerson

This was a suit on a promissory note signed by H. W. Anderson and L. J. Parkerson. Anderson filed no defense. Parkerson admitted a prima facie case for the plaintiff, and assumed the burden of proof. He pleaded as a defense that he had signed the note as surety for Anderson, the maker, that the plaintiff knew he signed as surety only, and that he was induced so to sign by certain misrepresentations of J. H. Hardin, agent and manager of the plaintiff corporation, which increased his risk so materially as to discharge him from liability on his contract of suretyship. The material parts of his…