Phillips v. Cox

Suit before a justice of the peace, on a. promissory note, as follows:

“ Three months after date, I promise to pay to the order of Eli Cox one hundred and twenty dollars, value-received, without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws, with ten per cent, interest from date until paid. If 'this note be collected by suit, the judgment shall include the attorney’s fee for collecting the same.

(Signed,) “ G. S. Castellar. ”

On the back thereof was written, at the time of the execution of the note, “ Phillips & Henderson, sureties.” The complaint upon the note was against the principal and…