<p>1. Guarantor cannot be Sued Jointly with Principal Debtor. The undertaking of a guarantor is his own separate and independent contract, distinct from that of the principal debtor. They cannot, therefore, be jointly sued.</p> <p>2. Justice’s Court: appeal : waiver. If the appellant, in a case begun before a justice of the peace, fails to give notice of appeal before the second term of the circuit court held after the appeal is taken, it is the duty of that court, on motion, to affirm the judg. ment; but, if the court refuses to affirm, and afterward the appellee engages in the trial, he thereby waives the error.</p>
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Aeeirmed · Decided 1880-04-15
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1927
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
¶11. guarantor CAN-jointly wDith principal debtor This suit was originally brought before a justice of the peace on account for goods sold and delivered- The plaintiffs recovered judgment, and the defendant appealed to the circuit cour¿_ Having failed to give notice of their appeal before the second term of the circuit court held after the appeal was taken, the plaintiffs filed a motion to aflirm the judgment of the justice, which motion was overruled. At a subsequent term the cause was tried and plaintiffs recovered judgment against Wm. A. Williams alone, the court holding that J. H. Williams was not jointly liable with Wm. A. Williams. From this judgment the plaintiffs have appealed.
¶2It appears from the record that the goods mentioned in the account sued on, were furnished to the defendant Wm. A. Williams on the following guaranty of the defendant J. H. Williams :
¶7The undertaking of a guarantor is his own separate and independent contract; it is not a joint engagement with his principal, and he cannot be sued with him. His undertaking being several and separate, he must be separately sued thereon. Graham v. Ringo, 67 Mo. 324; Central Savings Bank v. Shine, 48 Mo. 463. The circuit court rightly decided that there could be no recovery against J. H. Williams in the present action.
¶82. justice’s court: appeal; waiver. We think the court erred in overruling plaintiffs’ motion to affirm the judgment of the justice on account of the failure of the defendants to give notice 0f tlieir appeal; but the plaintiffs waived their exceptions to this ruling of the court by subsequently appearing to the action and engaging in the trial. The judgment of the circuit court will be affirmed.
