Jones v. Lewis

Simmons, Justice.

Lewis sued Stubbs as principal, and J. F. Barfield, Jones, and Jesse Barfield, as sureties, on a joint promissory note for $115.98, with interest from maturity at eight per cent., and attorneys’ fees. The sureties pleaded that Stubbs was the principal upon the note and they were only sureties, which the plaintiff knew at the time and before he advanced the money; that they only agreed to stand security for $50, and that they signed the note in blank, no amount whatever being on its face when they signed; that they never signed or agreed to sign the note sued on, and…