117 Iowa 691 | Iowa | 1901
Lemmon was not served with notice.of this action, and does not appear. The sureties set up as a defense that they signed the bond without reading, at Lemmon’s request, and upon his statement that it was a. recommendation, to be used in enabling him to secure the-agency of defendant company, and imposed mo liability on the signers; that the bond contained no fixed penalty when signed, and the amount of $300 was thereafter inserted by some person without the knowledge or consent of defendants ; and that a certificate of acknowledgment was after-wards added, although neither of these defendants ever-acknowledged the same, or consented to such addition.