Manning, Cushing & Co. v. Alger
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Montgomery District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge. Action on account filed in probate. There was a .judgment refusing an allowance, and the plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtG-ranger, J.
This case was before considered in this court on a demurrer to the claim, and it is reported in 78 Iowa, 185. It is not necessary that we should again state the facts of the ease, further than to say that the claim is based on an undertaking of the defendant’s intestate, Buchanan, to pay for certain goods, purchased by one J. T. Ingman, in the following words:
“Villisca, July 22, 1885.
■uMessrs. Manning, Cushing & Co., Ottumwa, Iowa.
“G-entlemen: — If you will ship goods to J. T. Ingman, I will be responsible for payment of same to "the amount of six hundred ($600) dollars.
“D. S. Buchanan.”
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