Bausman v. Credit Guarantee Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Hennepin county, to recover $945 and interest on the contract considered in the opinion. At the trial, before Smith, J., a verdict was directed for plaintiff for the amount demanded in the complaint. A new trial was refused, and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This was an action brought upon a written contract, purporting and alleged to have been executed by the defendant, a corporation, to the plaintiff, whereby, for the expressed consideration of plaintiff’s indorsing two notes of Ballard & Bostwick, the defendant “guaranteed him against being called on to pay them.” The answer was a general denial. The action was one to which the latter portion of section 89, c. 73, Gen. St. 1878, applied. Mast v. Matthews, 30 Minn. 441, (16 N. W. Rep. 155.) And, according to the doctrine of Cowing v. Peterson, 36 Minn. 130, (30 N. W. Rep. 461,) the general…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- P. P. Mast & Co. v. MatthewsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
- Cowing v. PetersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
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