Williams v. Hitchcock
Washington Supreme Court
Cross-appeals from a judgment of the superior court for Clallam county, Ralston, J., entered March 5, 1914, upon findings in favor of the defendants, in an action on a receiver’s bond, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover from Hitchcock, as principal, and Peter and Thorp and the marital communities consisting of Peter and wife and Thorp and wife, as sureties, on a receiver’s bond. The circumstances leading up to the receivership are as follows:
The defendants Peter and Thorp, prior to 1901, were partners engaged in an insurance, real estate and law business at Ballard. In May, 1901, they took one Jasperson as a third member of the partnership. He kept the books and acted as cashier. In 1905, the profits of the business having fallen off, Thorp withdrew from the firm,…
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