McWane Cast Iron Pipe Co. v. Barrett

Unquestionably, if the contract of indorsement could be shown to be an accommodation indorsement and it could be shown by parol evidence that there was no consideration therefor, the legal evidence in this case authorized the verdict for the defendant, the accommodation indorser. “Parol evidence shall be admissible to show that the writing was either originally void or subsequently became so.” Code, § 38-503. I think that all the other evidence, both written and oral, when considered in connection with the note sued on, would have authorized a finding by the jury that the defendant, when he…