Seward v. Derrickson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

The amended complaint, on which this action is based, alleges that in October, 1890, the defendants Derrickson and Sawyer, by their firm name of R. W. Derrickson & Co., signed a certain promissory note to pay at the order of the Traders Bank of Tacoma the sum of $5,000, with interest; that at the time of the signing of the note aforesaid the defendants were indebted to the bank on another promissory note of prior date, for $5,000, which note was signed on its face by the defendant, Henry Hewitt, Jr.; and that there was written on the back…