Case Threshing Machine Co. v. Wiley

Citations

• 89 Wash. 301
• 154 P. 437

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife — Community Debt — Suretyship. Where a husband signed a note as surety only and received no consideration, it is not a community debt and judgment against the community is properly denied.</p> <p>Evidence — Best and Secondary Evidence — Letters — Search— Diligence. Secondary evidence as to the contents of a letter is inadmissible on the ground that no diligent search had been made for it, where the witness stated that he had short notice, had searched through his desk and did not find it, and presumed he had it in the file, and counsel asked for a continuance so that it could he produced.</p>