Swift & Co. v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In.Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDIEE, District Judge.
The plaintiffs in error filed their complaint in the court below against the defendant in error to recover from him an alleged indebtedness of $2,487.75, for which they claim defendant was liable as guarantor upon a contract entered into between the plaintiffs and E. C. Jones, a son of the defendant; the undertaking being that said E. C. Jones would faithfully perform all the terms and conditions of a certain contract of agency theretofore entered into between him and the plaintiffs, and pursuant to which the latter appointed said E. C. Jones as their agent for the…
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