Koeniger v. Lentz

WARD, Judge.

Erich A. Koeniger appeals a Trial Court judgment dismissing his suit against Paul R. Lentz, Herman A. Dressel and Robert W. Hutchins,1 his co-sureties on two promissory notes. The maker of the two notes was Poydras Productions, a Louisiana limited partnership. Koeniger, as a surety, paid the notes when Poydras Productions defaulted and thereafter sued his co-sureties for the entire amount or alternatively their proportionate share of the principal, interest, attorney’s fees and costs on the two notes.

*623We reverse. We hold the remaining sureties, Lentz and Dressel, each liable to…