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33 Minn. 21

Lucy v. Wilkins

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided December 19, 1884

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1884-12-19

Appeal by defendant from an order of the municipal court of Minneapolis, overruling the defendant Jacoby’s demurrer to the complaint.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1935

3 state decisions

Relies on Hammel v. Beardsley · Carman v. . Plass

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Decided 1884-12-19

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Vanderburgh, J.

¶1The defendant Jacoby demurs to the complaint, on the ground that he was improperly joined with the other defendants in the suit. They executed a lease to plaintiff’s assignor, running five years from its date, June 9, 1883, rent payable monthly in *22advance, and at the time of its execution he signed a guaranty indorsed thereon as follows: “For value received I hereby guarantee the payment of the rent of the within premises, according to the terms and conditions of said lease, for the term of one year from and after June 1, 1883.” The action is for three months’rent accruing within the year and remaining unpaid. The case does not differ in principle from Hammel v. Beardsley, 31 Minn. 314, where the payee of a note, on its transfer, indorsed thereon an absolute guaranty of payment, and it was held that he might be sued jointly with the maker, and be considered “a surety on the same instrument, ” within the meaning of Gen. St. 1878, c. 66, § 36. It is true that in that case the guarantor was a party named in the original instrument, b'ut under our statute it cannot be material that the guarantor is a third party, or that his undertaking is indorsed upon the principal agreement instead of being incorporated in it, (Carman v. Plass, 23 N. Y. 286,) or written under it. Pomeroy on Remedies, § 410.

¶2Order affirmed, and cause remanded for further proceedings.

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