First Nat. Bk., Etc. v. Walsh, Admrx.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

As some misunderstanding apparently persists in regard to the liability of a married woman on a negotiable instrument of which she is an accommodation maker or endorser the present case invites an attempt to clarify the law on that subject. It would seem that the confusion is due to a failure to distinguish between liability on the note itself and liability with respect to a judgment obtained or confessed on the note.

W. O. Lashell and Elizabeth H. Lashell, his wife, executed a judgment note dated February 13, 1932, to the First National Bank of Yerona,…