Howard v. Associated Grocers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discharge of the debtor’s obligation to the creditor without consent of the guarantor discharges the obligation of the guarantor
• “A guarantee is a contract secondary or collateral to the principal contractual obligations which it guarantees.”
• “unless the debtor himself is bound to pay, the guarantor is not bound”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).