Roper v. J. P. Stevens & Co.

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• forbearance of debt constitutes valuable consideration as one party is abandoning a legal right
• Where a bank customer refrained from withdrawing his funds upon a guaranty of the bank officers to protect him against any loss, “[t]here can be no question about the presence of a consideration sufficient to support the guaranty bond . . . .”

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