LIABILITY OF GUARANTORS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10113, 7 October 1910, Page 5

LIABILITY OF GUARANTORS.

RaTHBONE v. HARRIS. . In the Magistrate's Court at , Masterton yesterday afternoon, judgment was delivered in the case of Rathbone v. Harris, a claim against a surety for £26 19s Id on a guarantee for timber supplied to one G. C. "Whitehead. . The case i was previously heard in Masterton some months ago, before Mr Turton, S.M., at Carterton, when judgment was given for defendant, against which judgment the plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court, arid a rehearing was ordered. The ease was re-heard by Mr Reid, S.lv'i., at Masterton last Court day, when the question of the liability of the guarantor, where time i 3 given to the debtor, was fully argued, and judgment reserved. In giving judgment yesterday, the Magistrate held that the surety in this case was-an asserting party to the giving of time, and the plain- , tiff was entitled to recover. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, £26 19s Id, and £7 costs. Mr P. L. Holliiigs appeared for plaintiff, and Mr C. A. Pownall for defendant.