Cambria Iron Co. v. Keynes
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Hocking county. The plaintiff in error sought by this action to recover on a guaranty executed by the defendant in error, and certain other directors of the Motherwell Iron & Steel Company, hy which such directors guaranteed the “ultimate payment,” by the Motherwell Iron & Steel Co., of all material purchased by it of the plaintiff in error during the season of 1891 and 1892. The parties having waived a jury, the cause was tried before the judge…
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Error to the Circuit Court of Hocking county. The plaintiff in error sought by this action to recover on a guaranty executed by the defendant in error, and certain other directors of the Motherwell Iron & Steel Company, hy which such directors guaranteed the “ultimate payment,” by the Motherwell Iron & Steel Co., of all material purchased by it of the plaintiff in error during the season of 1891 and 1892. The parties having waived a jury, the cause was tried before the judge who sat in the court of common pleas; judgment was there rendered in favor of the defendants, which was affirmed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtBradbury, J.
The plaintiff in error filed in the court of common pleas, a petition in the following words and figures:
Court of common pleas, Hocking county-, Ohio.
The Gambia Iron Company, plaintiff v. Robert W. Keynes, I. N. Collins, L. A. Culver, S. H. Bright, B. R. Higgins, D. M. Motherwell and M. D. Moore, defendants.
Petition. Civil action.
Plaintiff is a corporation duly incorporated under the law's of the state of Pennsylvania, and located at Johnstown, in said state.
On the 21st day of September, 1891, in consideration the plaintiff would furnish The Motherwell Iron & Steel Company of Logan, Ohio,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Stone v. RockefellerOhio Supreme Court · 1876
- Boalt v. BrownOhio Supreme Court · 1862