Knight v. Cheek
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
NEBEKER, Associate Judge:
This appeal seeks reversal of a judgment by the Superior Court allowing Dr. Robert Cheek, III, appellee, to recover from Dr. Robert Knight, appellant, part of the money which Dr. Cheek paid to C.I.T. Corporation (hereafter C.I.T.), creditor, under a guaranty of appellant Knight’s conditional sales contract. The issues are (1) whether the settlement of Dr. Knight’s liability to C.I.T. discharged both Dr. Knight and Dr. Cheek, so that subsequent payments by Dr. Cheek to C.I.T. imposed no duty on Dr. Knight to reimburse Dr. Cheek, and (2), assuming a duty on the part of…
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