Davis v. Jones

The appellant asigned to the appellee a bill single made by one J. C. McDaniel for the payment of the sum of $97, on which the appellee, within thirty days after the maturity thereof, instituted suit before a justice of the peace, recovered judgment for the debt and interest, on which execution was issued and returned “no property found,” and thereupon instituted this suit to charge the appellant, as assignor or indorser. The appellant pleaded, in bar of the suit, that the bill single contained a stipulation that the maker, in the event he did not pay at maturity, and suit was brought for its…