Walsh v. Featherstone
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant executed to Minor Ball and the Mississippi Land, Loan & Investment Company, a Minnesota corporation, the bond of guaranty mentioned in the opinion. The company named employed one H. Vandervoort to work for it. For his services he recovered judgment for $292.91 against the company on December 26,1893, in the district court for Hennepin county, on which judgment execution was returned unsatisfied. Plaintiff is the owner of this judgment.
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Defendant executed to Minor Ball and the Mississippi Land, Loan & Investment Company, a Minnesota corporation, the bond of guaranty mentioned in the opinion. The company named employed one H. Vandervoort to work for it. For his services he recovered judgment for $292.91 against the company on December 26,1893, in the district court for Hennepin county, on which judgment execution was returned unsatisfied. Plaintiff is the owner of this judgment. From an order of the district court for Hennepin county denying a motion of plaintiff for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, Elliott, J.,…
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
The defendant made a bond, or instrument under seal, dated August 1, 1893, by which, in consideration of one dollar and other valuable considerations, he promised as follows:
“I * * * do hereby guaranty * * * Mississippi Land, Loan & Investment Company * * * against any liability by reason of any transaction” of said company “entered into since the fourth, day of March, 1890.”
*105The plaintiff had a transaction with said company since that time, to wit, in 1891, by which it became indebted to him in the sum of $292.90, and brings this action to recover from defendant on this contract the amount so…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Bausman v. Credit Guarantee Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
- Campbell v. RoteringSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
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