Silver v. Kent’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““As security for the attached note of the Columbia Navigation and Trading Company, dated December 13th, 1897, and due September 13th, 1898, for the stim of $5,000, tlie undersigned liold claims for labor, materials, supplies, etc., against the steamer City of Columbia amounting to more than the amount of said-notes. For the sum of one dollar to us in hand paid, tlie receipt of whieli is hereby acknowledged, and for other valuable consideration, we, the undersigned, agree, undertake, and bind ourselves, if the above-described note is not paid at maturity by the Columbia Navigation and Trading Company, to-collect said claim and pay the full amount due on the attached and above-described note on or before December 13th, 1808. to the holder thereof, without any deduction or charge whatever. In witness whereof,- we have hereunto-attached our seals and affixed our signatures this 13th day of December, 1807. “[Signed] Max Levy. “[Signed] Samuel D. Kent. “[Signed] Harrington Emerson. “Witness to all three signatures: G-. P. Armstrong.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kent v. Silver