Brown Durrell Co. v. Belisle

This is a case in which the meaning of doubtful language is to be determined. The doubt is not in the law but in its application. The proposition that “the obligation of a guarantor is that which the fair import of the language used imposes upon him” (Simons v. Steele, 36 N. H. 73, 80), expresses the general rule of construction in reference to a particular class of contracts, and states about the only substantive rule of law to be invoked. Nor is there here any question of the rule which within certain defined limits admits extrinsic evidence as of aid in deciding the issue. The character of…