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        "text": "Ashe, J.\nThe only exception taken by the defendant.on -the trial was to the competency of the testimony of Russell and the plaintiff, who were offered on the part of the plaintiff, io show that the plaintiff had signed the note as surety and for the accommodation of the defendant. But His Plonor overruled the objection and allowed the evidence to \u25a0be introduced. The defendant contends that the testimony <of the plaintiff had been made incompetent by the act of 1879, chapter 183, and that of the witness, Russell, was also -incompetent because it explained a written contract.\nThe testimony of both the witnesses was properly admitted. The act of 1879 referred to, has no application to a case of this kind. It had reference only to actions founded \u25a0on judgments and bonds under seal, rendered or executed before the first of August, 1868, the purpose of which act was, to prevent the presumption of payment arising after ,th.e lapse of ten years, upon such judgments and bonds, from being rebutted by the testimony of the plaintiff in the action.\nThe-other ground-of -the exception is equally untenable. -It is conceded that it is .a general rule -of law that parol evidence cannot be admitted to contradict, add to, subtract \u2022from, or vary the terms of a written contract. \u201c But it is to be recollected that the contract between the principal and \u2022surety, .though it may be inferred- from the nature of the .security given to the creditor, is not contained therein, nor evidenced thereby, but is a collateral contract, usually a parol one, which may therefore be shown by any competent and satisfactory evidence.\u201d Wharton v. Woodburn, 4 Dev. & Bat., 507. See also the cases of Thornton v. Thornton, 63 N. C., 211; Mendenhall v. Davis, 72 N. C., 150; Love v. Wall, 1 Hawks, 313; Dan\u2019l Neg. Inst., \u00a7 1336.\nThere is no error. Judgment will be rendered here for the plaintiff.\nNo error. Affirmed.",
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      "The plaintiff was not represented in this-court:",
      "Messrs. G. 8. Ferguson, W. II. Malone and J. II. Merrimon-for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "J. L. SMITH v. WILLIAM HAYNES.\nWitness \u2014 Parol Evidence\u2014 Contract.\nIn 1860, the plaintiff signed a note payable to defenrlaut (at defendant\u2019s request) as accommodation paper, and upon his promise to protect him (plaintiff) from liability; defendant raised the money upon the note by an endorsement to a third party who collected the amount out of plaintiff, and the plaintiff thereupon sued defendant to recover the same;\nHeld, that the plaintiff is a competent witness in his own' behalf to prove the fact that he signed in the character of a surety to defendant.\nHeld further, than the act of ' 1879, eh. 183, does not apply, that act being only to forbid the introduction of testimony of parties in interest to rebut the presumption of .payment raised by time.\nHeld also, that parol evidence is admissible to prove the contract between the principal and surety upon a note, being a collateral contract not necessarily appearing on the face of the instrument.\n(Wharton v. Woodburn, 4Dev. &Bat., 507; Thornton v. Thornton, 63 N. C., 211; Mendenhall v.' Darns, 72 3ST. 0., 150; Love v. Wall, 1 Hawks, 313, cited and approved.)\nCivil Action tried on appeal at December Special Term, 1879, of Haywood Superior Court, before Graves, J.\nThis action was commenced before a justice of the peace in the county of Haywood. The plaintiff alleged in his complaint that he had paid the amount sued for, as surety for the defendant under the following state of facts: The-defendant requested the plaintiff to sign an accommodation, note for him to enable him to raise some money by selling the note to James-Parks; that he agreed to do s.o upon the defendant\u2019s promising him that he should not be troubled about the matter, and never have the money to pay ; that the note-was brought to him for his signature while he was deeply engrossed with his business as clerk of the court, and he-signed it without noticing that the note was payable to defendant ; that Parks, the payee, brought an action on the-note and he was compelled to pay the sum of forty-five dollars and eighty-one cents.\nThe note signed by the plaintiff which he was forced to-pay, was as follows, to-wit: \u201cSix months after date we or-either of us promise to pay William Haynes twenty-one-dollars and thirty-four cents for value received of him.. Witness our hands and seals, this 27 of March, 1860.\n(Signed) L. D. Russell, [seal.]\nJ. L. Smith, [seal.]\nAnd endorsed as follows, \u201c pay the within note to James-\u25a0Parks, (signed) William Haynes.\u201d\nOn the trial before the justice the defendant,.Haynes; denied all the allegations of the plaintiff\u2019s complaint, but the-defendant, Russell, made no defence, and judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff against both the defendants,-, from which judgment the defendant, Haynes, alone appealed. And on the trial in the superior court, the case-was submitted to a jury, who found all issues-in-favor of the plaintiff. Upon which verdict there was judgment and.the-defendant appealed.\nThe plaintiff was not represented in this-court:\nMessrs. G. 8. Ferguson, W. II. Malone and J. II. Merrimon-for defendant."
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