12 Wend. 520 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1834
By the Court,
This is undoubtedly a special promise to answer for the default of another, and requires not only that the promise, but the consideration for it, should be in writing. 3 Johns. R. 210. 4 id. 280. 4 Cowen, 432. 6 id. 346. 2 R. S. 135, sec. 1, subd. 2.
The consideration does sufficiently appear upon the face of the instrument it is the putting into the hands of Monnell, by the plaintiff, of any amount of silver, not excceeding $400, for the purpose of being manufactured by him. In Stadt v. Lill. 9 East, 348, 1 Campb. 242, S. C., the guaranty was as follows: “I guarantee the payment of any goods which J. Stadt delivers to J. Nichols. ” It was held that the consideration was sufficiently expressed. Lord Ellenborough, before whom the cause was tried at nisi prius, was of opinion that the stipulated delivery of the goods to Nichols was a consideration appearing on the face of the writing; and when the delivery took place, the consideration attached, although the instrument contained no promise on the part of the plaintiff to deliver the goods, and no action would have lain upon
New trial denied.