Scovill Manufacturing Co. v. Cassidy

This was an action brought in the municipal court of Chicago by defendant in error against plaintiffs in error as guarantors under a certain contract. The jury returned a verdict of $5000 in favor qf defendant in error, upon which judgment was entered. On appeal to the Appellate Court that judgment was affirmed. The case wras brought to this court on a petition for certiorari.

During the latter part of 1906 the Canchester Incandescent Kerosene Light and Heat Company, which was a selling and distributing company, negotiated with defendant in error, a manufacturing company, to furnish it a…