Domestic Sewing Machine Co. v. Webster
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Cou/rt. The plaintiff filed its petition claiming of defendants the sum of $1,000, for an alleged breach of the conditions of a bond of which the following is a copy: “Know all men by these presents, that Wm.
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Appeal from Muscatine District Cou/rt. The plaintiff filed its petition claiming of defendants the sum of $1,000, for an alleged breach of the conditions of a bond of which the following is a copy: “Know all men by these presents, that Wm. Webster, of Rock Island, Ills., as principal, and W. P. Wright, of Montpelier township, Muscatine county, State of Iowa, as surety, in consideration of one dollar to them paid by the Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Ohio), the receipt whereof is acknowledged, are hereby held and firmly bound unto said…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Ch. J.
contract • ■bond: surety, The condition of the bond executed by the defendant, Wright, as surety, is that the defendant, Webster; s^ia^ pay any and every indebtedness or liability existing .at the time of making the bond, or which might thereafter in any manner exist or be incurred on the part of Webster to the said' Sewing Machine Company, “whether such indebtedness or liability shall exist in the Shape of book accounts, notes, renewals or extensions of notes or accounts, acceptances, indorsements or otherwise.” The bond, upon its face, appears to embody a full and complete…
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