Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Abraham

Plaintiff sued to recover attorney’s fees and expenditures incidental to an indemnity agreement executed by defendants with plaintiff for the release of an attachment against N. Abraham in another action then pending against that defendant. The cause was tried to the court without a jury upon a stipulation of facts and the testimony of one witness. Plaintiff had judgment for the full amount prayed for.

In the year 1926 the defendant N. Abraham entered into a joint venture with Harry and Lou Silberman who were engaged in the scrap metal business under the corporate name of San Francisco Iron &…