Walser v. Wear
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Barton Circuit Court. — Hon. D. P. Stratton, Judge. (1) The motion to strike out that portion of defendant’s answer changing his liability as a guarantor, as fixed by the written agreement, to a principal, on the ground that such was the understanding at the time the guaranty was executed, should have been sustained. 1 G-reenl. Ev., sec. 277; James v. Clough, 25 Mo.
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Error to Barton Circuit Court. — Hon. D. P. Stratton, Judge. (1) The motion to strike out that portion of defendant’s answer changing his liability as a guarantor, as fixed by the written agreement, to a principal, on the ground that such was the understanding at the time the guaranty was executed, should have been sustained. 1 G-reenl. Ev., sec. 277; James v. Clough, 25 Mo. App. 154; Koehring v. Muemminghoff, 61 Mo. 407; Fruin v. Railroad, 89 Mo. 404; State ex rel. v. Eoshaw, 98 Mo. 360. (2) Besides, defendant is estopped from asserting that he was a principal in the lease. Having been so…
1Opinion of the CourtBtjegess, J.
— This is an action against defendant as guarantor for the performance on the part of one J, E. Gwin of a contract of lease entered into between plaintiff and said Gwin for a certain coal mine in Barton county.
The petition alleges: “That he, said Gwin, has failed to work the mine in good order on the rules of first class mining, as he agreed to do in said lease, in this, that he has failed to run mine entries, but stopped them entirely; that he ran entries in the wrong direction, to wit, northeast, when they should have been run, on the rules of good mining, east and north, and some of them…
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