Hartley v. Sandford

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

This case was tried at the April Term, 1900, of the Pa_ssaic Circuit Court. The action was brought upon a verbal promise, upon the part of the defendant, made to the plaintiff, that if he (the plaintiff) would join as surety in a bond, given by the defendant’s son Jacob to one Morehouse, to secure the payment of a debt of said son’s to Morehouse, and should afterward be compelled to pay anj money in consequence of such obligation, he (the defendant) would repa3 him.

The plaintiff had a verdict; and the question certified is whether the…