Read the full judgment text of HCA 008923/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 May 1997.
1. The Plaintiff is a supplier of leather. In 1993, it supplied a quantity of leather to Bobcats Fur Factory Company ("Bobcats"). Various cheques which Bobcats had drawn to pay for the leather were dishonoured on presentation, and a schedule for the repayment by instalments of the sums due to the Plaintiff was drawn up. The Plaintiff claims that the Defendant, whose business card described him as the Managing Director of Bobcats, signed a form of guarantee in which he promised to pay the whole o