Dozier v. National Borax Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of two thousand seven hundred dollars and costs in an action to recover said sum upon an alleged written contract upon which the appellant- Dake was a surety.

The facts of the case, in so far as they are undisputed, are as follows: The appellant L. W. Dake and one Max P. Fries were interested together as stockholders and directors in the National Borax Company, a corporation, of which the said Max P. Fries was president and manager. In the month of February, 1913, a transaction was pending between Max P. Fries, as president of…