Colt Co. v. Miller

We will discuss only the exception dealt with in the second headnote. Suit was brought by the J. B. Colt Company against Mrs. S. J. Miller, S., J. Miller and Mrs. H. C. ' Mock, on a written contract for the “ installment of a carbide generator and lighting plant.” Mrs. Miller filed a plea in which she alleged that the debt for which suit was *149brought was that of her husband, and that she signed the contract as security for him, and that “ while the purported contract does not disclose that this defendant signed the same as surety, the agent of plaintiff purposely had this defendant to sign on…