Cober v. Connolly

How courts have described this case

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• upholding release obtained fraudulently by joint obli-gee when obligor performed in good faith and did not know of joint obligee’s breach of duty toward other obligee
• stating “[a] discharge of the promisor by an obli-gee in fraud of a co-obligee is inoperative to discharge the promisor’s duty to the extent of the co-obligee’s interest in the performance, if the promisor * * * has reason to know of the fraud”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).