Williams v. J. Ogg & Keith Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal, from the County Court of Jefferson. Tried below before Hon. D. P. Wheat.
1Opinion of the Court
NEILL, Associate Justice.
W. M. Bobinson being desirous of purchasing ox teams and a logging outfit from the appellant W. J. Williams, importuned the Keith Lumber Company to go his security upon the purchase money notes'to be given in event of such purchase. J. F. Keith, the president of the company, promised him in behalf of the company that if he would get some good man to go on the notes as maker with him, the company would endorse them. Keith, then, being told by Bobinson that he could get J. Ogg to join him in the execution of the notes, after investigating Ogg’s financial standing and…
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