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· 10/15/1917

Runnels v. James

Citations

  • 115 Miss. 607
  • 76 So. 566

Syllabus

<p>Pkincipal and Stjeetv. Release of sureties. Alteration of instruments.</p> <p>Where a promissory note with a surety, executed for two hundred and twenty dollars, twenty dollars of which being for illegal interest, was changed b'y the principals with the consent of,the payee to' two hundred dollars without the knowledge of the .surety, in such case the surety was released hut the principals were still hound.</p>

Judges: Cook

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