Home Coupon Exchange Co. v. Goldfarb

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

Samuel Goldfarb, the defendant below, became surety for the payment “of the rent for two months,” reserved by a lease made by the plaintiff to one Maxgulies for a store building in Newark. He also became surety for “the performance -of any covenant therein contained” upon the part of the tenant.

This suit was brought in the First District Court of the city of Newark' to recover the balance of two months’ rent alleged to be due, and the judge, sitting without a jury, rendered judgment for the plaintiff.

*147The defendant alleges as his, first…