Little v. People's Bank

McCLELLAN, j.

The plaintiff, the People’s Bank, declared on a negotiable instrument for $2,500 (with credits admitted), executed to it on August 2, 1916, by Denton Live Stock Commission Company, a corporation. The note was indorsed by defendant, appellant. In aid of the plaintiff’s action, proceedings in' garnishment (attachment against the nonresident defendant) were instituted. Besides the general issue, the de-, fendant interposed pleas to these effects: That the/note in question was the obligation of her husband, J. R. Little, only, and that by indorsement she could not validly become…