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35 Ohio St. (N.S.) 673

Dangler v. Baker

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1880

Ohio Supreme Court · decided 1880-01-15

Tbis cause was commenced in the Superior Court of Cleveland by Q-eo. A. Baker against Calvin Carr and .David A. Dangler, upon a bond conditioned in the penal •sum of $20,000, alleged to have been executed and delivered by said defendants to said plaintiff on tire 20th of August, 1867. The plaintiff avers in his petition that the conditions uf the bond had been broken, whereby Carr and Dangler had bécome indebted to him in the sum of $2,440.25.

Decided 1880-01-15

White, J.

¶1In this case, four persons, including the defendant, agree to execute a bond to the plaintiff. One of the persons who was to execute the bond, procured, by fraud, a bond to be executed and delivered by the defendant, in which the names of two of the persons who were to join in the execution were omitted. Held: 1. That the fraud constitutes

¶2no defense to a suit on the bond, where the plaintiff had no notice of the fraud at the time he accepted the same, and parted with the property in consideration of which the bond was given. 2. That the plaintiff might have required the bond to have been executed by all the parties, but he was not bound to do so. He might waive his right to require the bond to be thus executed by all the parties ; and the fact that the bond presented to the plaintiff and accepted by him, was the bond of two of the parties only, is no evidence to charge him with notice of the fraud practiced in its procurement.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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