Star Grocery Co. v. Bradford
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Ritchie County. Action by the Star Grocery Company against W. Bradford and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, JUDGE:
The bond, constituting the basis of this action and given by a traveling salesman to secure faithful performance of his written contract with his principal, contains, in the obligatory clause thereof, the name of the salesman, described as principal, and the condition recites his emp^ment, his duty to collect accounts for his employer and the existence of an article of agreement between them, giving its date, but is signed by the two defendants herein only as sureties.
Its obligation as to them is denied on two grounds: (1) its acceptance by the obligee in an obviously…
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