WATKINS PRODUCTS, INCORPORATED v. Rains

This is an action by Watkins Products, Incorporated, to recover from George Oren Rains, as principal, and Ingve A. Mattson, George L. Gifford, and Mrs. G. L. Gifford, as sureties, a balance of $1,350.47 with interest at 6 percent per annum from September 6, 1956. The defendants filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings. The motion was sustained as to the sureties and overruled as to the principal. The plaintiff has appealed.

The record shows that on March 27, 1956, plaintiff entered into a written contract with the defendant Rains for the sale of merchandise to Rains. On the same written…