Keogh v. Delany

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scudder, J.

Judgments were obtained in the Supreme Court, on February 20th, 1874, in the above actions; the *98first for $493.40, and the second for $310.06. David W. Bonnell,- at the request of the defendant, William Delany, who was the principal debtor, his son, Edward Gr. Delany, being his surety, paid the amount of these two judgments, and took an assignment of them from the plaintiff, Edward Keogh, May 6th, 1874.

When Bonnell paid the judgments, Delany gave him his note for $850, and it was agreed that the assignment of the judgments should be held as…