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Bever v. Butler

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided August 15, 1833

Ohio Supreme Court · decided 1833-08-15

Debt on a penal bond, conditioned that Butler should make a •deed for certain land, within a stipulated time.

Decided 1833-08-15

BY THE COURT.

¶1The case of The Sank of Steubenville v. Carrol, 5 O. 214, is decisive of this. The cases cited upon the subject of valid contracts and good consideration, do not apply to the -question before us. In this case, the contract (to give time) has *376been executed by the parties as a valid one, and it does not lie in the' mouth of either now to say, they might have refused to execute the contract,'because it was without consideration. The real question is, was'time given by the obligee to the principal debtor, without the consent of the surety ? that is alleged and admitted by the demurrer. Such time given upon a new contract, waves the performance of the old one, and substitutes in its stead a new one, and in that way dischaz’ges the old. We do not presume that th estatutoof fraud bears upon the contract; but if it did, the execution or admission of the contract would take it out of the statute.

¶2Judgment for the defendant.

¶3[Time given to debtor by executed contract discharges surety, and want of consideration can be shown. Commented on and distinguished; Jenkins v. Clarkson, 7 O., 1st pt. 72, 74; Thompson v. Marshall, 3 W. L. M. 386, 388.

¶4Written contract variable by subsequent parol contract; Negley v. Jeffers, 28 O. S. 90, 100.]

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