Cramer v. Redman
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Johnson County, Hon. Joseph L. Stotts, Judge. This action was instituted in the District Court by Manlius T. Redman against Newton E. Cramer to recover an alleged share of certain money collected by defendant from one Holland, for whom the parties had been so-sureties.
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Error to the District Court, Johnson County, Hon. Joseph L. Stotts, Judge. This action was instituted in the District Court by Manlius T. Redman against Newton E. Cramer to recover an alleged share of certain money collected by defendant from one Holland, for whom the parties had been so-sureties. The allegations of the petition as finally amended were as follows: “1. That plaintiff and defendant, as co-sureties for one William H. Holland as principal, signed a note to John T. Webber on January 13th, 1889, for the sum of $1,985 and interest thereon. “2. That at the maturity thereof the said…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Chiee Justice.
The parties to this suit, upon the failure of the principal debtor to pay a promissory note which they had signed as co-sureties, paid the amount thereof in equal proportions, each of them paying the sum of $1,071.50. The note had been given January 15, 1889, and-was-paid by said sureties September 14, 1889. In 1899, probably in September of that *339year,, the plaintiff in error received $2,210.91 from the net proceeds of a certain contract which the principal debtor-,, in 1898, had assigned to him. The sum so received is claimed by plaintiff in error to be the amount;…
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