Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — AFFIRMS LOCAL COURT. [ARTICLE]

AFFIRMS LOCAL COURT.

The Appellate court Imus affirmed the decision of the Jasper circuit court in the case of the Watkins Medical Co. vs. George H. Hammerton, et al, wherein the plaintiff .secured a judgment for $538 against Ed Longstreth, with Mr. Hammerton and Joseph Kosta as sureties, in March, 1916. The decision of the higher court- follows: , “(1) The appellants were sureties upon a note given in payment for an account for medicines furnished another (principal) for sale under a guaranty by appellants. The appellants filed an answer setting up that the appellee for eighteen months failed to attempt any collections from the principal debtor or to notify appellants such facte at the time the note was executed. The court holds that the note was given in settlement of all prior controversies and that there is no sufficient showing of fraud to invalidate it, and that the demurrer Is eerrect in form.”