Merryman v. First Nat. Bank of Terrell

The parties will be designated appellant and appellee. Appellee bank, a national banking corporation, sued O. H. Merry-man, J. O. Barton, J. E. Barton, and J. M. Gipson on their four joint promissory notes aggregating $677, and to foreclose a chattel mortgage lien on cotton grown by Merryman in 1920, and on certain live stock, attaching the mortgage as an exhibit to its petition.

The defendants answered by a general demurrer and general denial, and specially pleaded that th'e notes sued on were executed to appellee bank by Merryman as principal and by the other defendants as sureties; that the…