Pratt v. Matthews
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment in favor of tbe plaintiff, entered on tbe report of a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The action, is on an agreement of guaranty executed by the defendants to McKinney & Albright, the plaintiff’s assignors. The defendant Matthews, alone, was served with the summons, and the judgment is against him only. McKinney & Albright were wholesale dealers in coal at TJtica, and had been selling coal to Alfred O. Pope, a retail dealer at Binghamton. On or about 10th January, 1877, the defendants executed to McKinney & Albright the writing sued on, in which they agreed to and with said firm that Pope, “ who has purchased, or is about to purchase, anthracite coal of said firm,…
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