LaFarge Building Materials, Inc. v. Pratt

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• analyzing the contemporaneous writings rule separately from the rule regarding whether documents incorporate each other
• “If a personal guaranty refers to any other writing which can be identified completely by this reference, without the aid of parol evidence, the guaranty can be construed together with the other writing to satisfy the statute of frauds.”
• “Even where the intent of the parties is manifestly obvious, where any of these names!, that is, the name of the principal debtor, the promisor, and the promisee,] is omitted from [a guaranty,] the agreement is not enforceable because it fails to satisfy the [S]tatute of fF]rauds.”

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