Black, Starr & Frost v. Grabow
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by a business corporation on a guaranty in writing, which is set forth in the opinion. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, dated September 6, 1912. On removal to the Superior Court upon a claim of trial by jury under St. 1912, c. 649, § 3, the case was submitted to Fox, J., upon an agreed statement of facts. The judge ordered judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $419. From the judgment entered in pursuance of this order the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action upon a guaranty of the tenor following:
*517“Port Antonio, Jamaica, B. W. I.,
February 22nd, 1909.
Mr. Witherby Black,
c/o Black, Starr & Frost,
~N. Y. City.
Dear Sir:
Mr. I. Percy Mills has asked me to guarantee a bill that he is incurring at your store to the amount of four hundred dollars.
I hereby do so, and if same is not paid within six months from date that upon presentation of the bill to me I will pay it.
Yours very truly,
E. K Grabow.”
This letter was given by the defendant to I. Percy Mills, who in turn handed it to the plaintiff. On March 9, 1909, the plaintiff, after receipt…
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