Hartsfield Company Inc. v. Whitfield

Hartsfield Company Inc. filed suit on a note' against Ernest Lee Whitfield in the civil court of Fulton County, on March 3, 1943. The note sued on was signed by Ernest Lee Whitfield, Mary Biles, and H. F. Horton, and it was alleged in the petition that the reason the other two makers of the note were not sued was that Mary Biles had moved out of this State, and H. F. Horton was in the military service of the United States. The note sued on was a joint and several obligation, and it appears from the petition that the balance due thereon was $42.06. Whitfield filed a plea, stating that H. F.…