McLean County Bank v. Brokaw

How courts have described this case

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

• finding a co-obligor released from liability because she was not a party to a subsequent, substitute contract signed by the other co-obligor
• finding a co-obligor released from liability because she was not a party to a subsequent, substitute contract signed by the other co-obligor
• “The function of the court is to effectuate, if ascertainable, the intent of the parties to the contract.”
• where parents acted as guarantors for loans to their son, the court stated that the creditor was not required “to take any unusual steps to assure himself that [the parents were] acquainted with facts which [the creditor] may assume are known to both of them”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).