Tyson

Tyson v. Reinecke

Good Law
1914 Cal. App. LEXIS 199·25 Cal. App. 696·145 P. 153
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 7, 1914Civ. No. 1387.California1,706 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Richards, J.

This is an action on a guaranty. The appeal is by defendant from a judgment and from an order denying him a new trial. Defendant also appeals from an order refusing to dissolve an attachment.

Plaintiffs are assignees of Gage, Mills & Co., a partnership, and the action is brought for the reasonable value and the alleged contract price of lumber alleged to have been sold and delivered by said partnership to the Metropolis Construction Company, a corporation, and is founded upon a written instrument of guaranty signed by defendant in the words and figures as follows:

The answer admits the execution by the defendant of the said instrument of guaranty, but denies all the other material allegations of the complaint, and pleads exoneration of the guaranty under section 2819 of the Civil Code.

After trial, the court found in favor of the plaintiffs on all the issues and judgment was accordingly entered against the defendant for the sum of $6319.91, being the amount of plain tiffs’ demand and interest from the time of commencing suit to the rendition, of judgment. The defendant owned one share of stock in the Metropolis Construction Company. He was also, as he termed it, “accommodation…

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