Chandler v. Spencer

Robert J. Spencer brought this suit against Malinda A. and Richard M. Chandler, to recover the amount due on three promissory notes alleged to have been executed by the defendants to one Butler. The notes were payable at a bank in this State. It is alleged that they were assigned for a valuable consideration before their maturity.

Malinda A. Chandler answered that she was a married woman at the time she executed the notes, and that she received no part of the consideration upon which the notes were given, but signed them merely as the surety for her co-defendant, Richard M. Chandler.

To this…