Nevin

Nevin v. Thompson

Good Law
1893 Cal. LEXIS 1112·4 Cal. Unrep. 390·35 P. 160
Supreme Court of CaliforniaDecember 28, 1893No. 19,318California865 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Temple, J.

This appeal is upon the judgment-roll. The complaint shows that defendant Thompson, in June, 1890, executed and delivered to plaintiff a promissory note for the sum *391 of $700, which note plaintiff still owns and holds, and which has not been paid;, that, on the eleventh day of December following, the defendants Daley, Schulenberg and Christian executed and delivered to defendant Thompson an instrument in writing, which is set out in the complaint. This instrument, it was averred, as written, did not truly express the intention of the parties to it, and the plaintiff asked to have it reformed. This was done, and no point is made here as to that procedure. As it is alleged the parties meant to have it read, and as it is made to read by the judgment and decree of the court, it is a penal bond executed by Daley as principal, and Schulenberg and Christian as sureties, who are held and firmly bound to Thompson in the sum of $3,000, jointly and severally; and is conditioned “that whereas the said Frank C. Thompson and one Thomas J. Cambrón are now indebted to the parties hereinafter named in the sums set opposite each name, and that the purpose of this obligation is to relieve the…

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