Hart v. Trustees of Princeton College

Opinion by

Judge CofeR:

The debt sued for was contracted by the trustees of the college for services to be rendered to the corporation. .It was the corporation’s debt, and the undertaking of Calvert and others was merely as sureties and guarantors. This is evident not only from the language of the writing dated July, 1872, but also from the parol evidence, and there is no foundation in the evidence for the position assumed by the corporation in its pleadings (and in the argument of its counsel, that the appellant was to look to Calvert and his associates for any balance of his salary not paid…