Western MacHinery Company, a Corporation v. Northwestern Improvement Company, a Corporation

JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

In an action on a written contract for sale and purchase of machinery, the trial eourt held that the sole signatory thereto as buyer was a surety, who was released because the court found that another, unnamed in the instrument, was principal and that time had been extended to the latter without the consent of the surety. The first question is whether the signer bound itself personally by contract as purchaser. The answer depends upon the legal interpretation of a writing under the law of the State of Washington.

Western Machinery Company, through J. Stanley…