Davis v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The law is well settled, that if the creditor, by a valid and binding agreement, without the assent of the surety, gives further time for payment to the principal, the surety is discharged both at law and in equity; and it makes no difference whether the surety may be thereby actually damnified or not. Sprigg v. Bank, 10 Pet. (U. S.) 257; Rathbone v. Warren, 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 587; Gifford v. Allen, 3 Metc. (Mass.) 255; Solomon v. Gregory, 19 N. J. L. 112; Gahn v. Niemcewics’s Ex’rs, 11 Wend. (N. Y.) 312.” Warner v. Crane, 20 Ill. 148 ; Leonard v. Village of Gibson, 6 Ill. App. 503 ; Dunlap v. Clements, 18 Ala. 778 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Scherf v. Illinois Surety Co.