Highborn v. Fletcher

The parties to this suit signed as sureties for Wilson Eandall a note of which the following is a copy:

“$530. Searsport, Aug. 19, 1868.

One year from date for value received we promise to pay P. Simonton or order five hundred and thirty dollars with interest.

Wilson Eandall,

Eobert Hichborn,

C. S. Fletcher, security.”

*210If the defendant, having signed as surety, were prima facie to be regarded as surety for those whose signatures precede his own, still parol evidence is undoubtedly admissible to show, his true relation to the note. In the present case it satisfactorily appears that both plaintiff…