Muench v. Medford Lakes Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “As a general rule a debtor may effectively pay and discharge, in whole or in part, his debt to join[t] creditors by payment to one of the creditors.”
• where a husband and wife were joint payees of a note to the husband’s daughter and son-in-law, the court found an oral release by the husband was not effective against the wife because the wife was not present and neither authorized nor ratified the release

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).