Steinwart v. Susman

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

Louis Susman appeals from a judgment in favor of Robert Benstein based upon a guaranty clause in a lease. Bensteins motion to dismiss the appeal has been taken with the case.

Susman was an officer of the lessee corporation, Fox River Valley Ice Cream Co. The lease contained a recital that he was signing in his individual capacity “to guarantee the faithful performance of the same by party of the second part”. In the proceedings before us Benstein, as an assignee of the lessor, brought suit against Susman, the corporation, and…