Citizens & Southern National Bank of South Carolina v. Lanford

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the guarantor was not a party to the note and could not avail himself of defenses based on impairment of collateral
• holding a guarantor is not a party to a note and cannot avail himself of defenses based on the note
• \A guaranty of payment is an absolute or unconditional promise to pay a particular debt if it is not paid by the debtor at maturity.\
• \The law does not impose a duty . . . to explain to an individual what he could learn from simply reading the document.\
• “A guaranty of payment is an absolute or unconditional promise to pay a particular debt if it is not paid by the debtor at maturity.”
• bank has no duty to explain to an individual what he could learn by simply reading the document

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).