Mansfield v. McReary

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that spouses “should not be required to pay a greater proportion ... than the proportion their combined guaranty ... bore to the total of all guaranties”
• explaining that, under the principles of suretyship and guaranty, when multiple guarantors promise to pay the same underlying obligation in separate guaranties they are each other’s coguarantors
• no Jackman merger principle raised in a case in which one coguarantor paid one of the corporate debtor’s loans and assigned his rights to another coguarantor, his wife, who paid the remaining balance of the corporate debt and then sought contribution from all coguarantors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).