Hannah v. Fife

Christiancy, Ch. J.

This was an action of assumpsit brought by Fife and Haviland in the circuit court for the county of Grand ■ Traverse against the plaintiffs in error, as the sureties of one Oscar L. Noble, in a contract between said Noble and Fife and Haviland, by which Noble agreed to enter into and perform a contract with the state for the construction of a swamp-land state road, for the bnilding of which said Fife and Haviland had been the lowest bidders, and to give them as a bonus for being allowed to take their place in the contract, eight sections of the swamp lands to be received…