Taussig's Appeal

Citations

• 221 Pa. 62
• 70 A. 294
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 435

Syllabus

<p>Principal and surety — Judgment note — Assignment of interest in trust estate — Evidence—Decedents’ estates.</p> <p>Where a mother and son, the one having a life interest, and the other a remainder interest in an estate, jointly execute a judgment note, and assign their respective interests as security for the payment of the note, and it appears on the face of the papers that the mother was the principal and the son the surety in the transaction, it may be shown, nevertheless, after the death of the mother, as between the4mother’s estate and the son or his assignee, that the son was in fact the principal, and the mother only the surety.</p>