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1 Minor 122

Whiting v. King

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1823

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1823-12-15

EDWARD KING declared against Nathan Whiling “ of plea that he render unto him f426TW> which to him he “ owes, and from him unjustly detains.” The declaration then proceeds in the usual form of assumpsit, on a bill single of Abraham Philips to Whiting for that sum,-assigned to King, and at the conclusion states an indebitatus assumpsit for the specific sum.

Decided 1823-12-15

Judge Crenshaw

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶2In this case there are nine assignments of Errors. It will only be necessary to take notice of the second, viz. “ That “ the plaintiff in the Court below pi'oceeded in an action of “ debt, when the defendant was liable only in assumpsit.”

¶3The undertaking of the indorsee is collateral, not absolute. He is liable only in the event of the maker’s failing: to pay. The remedy against him is by action of assumpsit and not debt. This Error is not cured by our Statute of amendments. In this opinion the Court are unanimous, Judgment reversed.

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