Case ID: ga-app_11/html/0235-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3944.
    Patterson v. Bank of Lenox.
    Decided June 5, 1912.
    Complaint; from city court of Nashville — Judge Lankford. January 8, 1912.
    
      Alexander & Gary, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. P. Knight, J. Z. Jackson, Knight, Chastain & Gaskins, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

This was a suit against several defendants, as alleged makers of a promissory note. The defense relied upon by the plaintiff in error was that the note was not binding upon her, for the reason that she was only a surety and was a married woman at the time she signed the note as such. Held: The evidence demanded a finding in favor of this plea, and the verdict against the plaintiff in error was unauthorized. Civil Code (1910), § 3007. Judgment reversed