Yakima Hardware Co. v. Strickler, 22046.
Decision Date | 15 April 1930 |
Docket Number | 22046. |
Parties | YAKIMA HARDWARE CO. v. STRICKLER. |
Court | Washington Supreme Court |
Department 1.
Appeal from Superior Court, Franklin County; John Truax, Judge.
Action by the Yakima Hardware Company against Emma M. Strickler. From a judgment dismissing the action, plaintiff appeals.
Reversed with directions.
Rigg & Brown and C. W. Halverson, all of Yakima, for appellant.
M. M Moulton, of Kennewick, and Charles L. Powell, of Seattle, for respondent.
Plaintiff in its complaint alleged that Kennewick Hardware Company executed in plaintiff's favor a promissory note in the following form:
and that defendant, being one of the stockholders of the maker of the note, indorsed the same in writing and guaranteed payment thereof. Plaintiff further alleged that certain payments had been made on the note and that at the date of the verification of plaintiff's complaint, May 27, 1928, there was a balance due thereon in the sum of $1,892.04, payment of which had been demanded and for which amount plaintiff prayed for judgment against defendant. By her answer defendant admitted that she had indorsed the note and that payments had been made thereon, but denied that any demand for payment of the note had been made upon the maker thereof and by it refused. In her answer she affirmatively pleaded that she owned two shares of the capital stock of the Kennewick Hardware Company and that she indorsed the note solely for the accommodation of that corporation, which fact was known to plaintiff at the time. That on May 2, 1927, Kennewick Hardware Company became involved in financial difficulties, and that on that date it entered into an agreement in writing with its creditors, the material portions of which are as follows:
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