{ "id": 11276766, "name": "GEORGE B. BAKER vs. BENJAMIN ROBINSON, HENRY L. MYROVER and THOS. S. LUTTERLOH", "name_abbreviation": "Baker v. Robinson", "decision_date": "1869-01", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "191", "last_page": "193", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "63 N.C. 191" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "N.C.", "id": 9292, "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 5, "name_long": "North Carolina", "name": "N.C." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "4 Dev., 277", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Dev.", "case_ids": [ 11276355 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/nc/15/0277-01" ] }, { "cite": "2 Hawks, 525", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Hawks", "case_ids": [ 11277039 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/nc/9/0525-01" ] }, { "cite": "22 How. 341", "category": "reporters:scotus_early", "reporter": "How.", "case_ids": [ 1137333 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/63/0341-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 307, "char_count": 4069, "ocr_confidence": 0.426, "pagerank": { "raw": 2.577555015291531e-07, "percentile": 0.8168315990623392 }, "sha256": "95cf8f24c25e4f9d572e47ee399ef1f43da7c750e7d2ab64c3059d2c2f7bacd2", "simhash": "1:0d1fcc2568e13889", "word_count": 723 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:51:48.011339+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "GEORGE B. BAKER vs. BENJAMIN ROBINSON, HENRY L. MYROVER and THOS. S. LUTTERLOH." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Settle, J.\nThe subject of this suit is four notes of hand, \u25a0each in the following words and figures, to wit:\n\u201c $362 50. WilmingtoN, N. C., Nov. 9th, 1866.\nNinety days after date I promise to pay Q-eorge B. Baker or bearer, three hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents, for value received, with interest from date at 8 per cent.\n(Signed) BENJ. BOBINSON.\u201d\nOn the back of each, were endorsed in blank, the names of Henry L. Myrover and Thomas S. Lutterloh.\nIn interpreting contracts, we should endeavor to carry out the intention of the parties. It appears that the defendants, Myrover and Lutterloh, put their names upon the back of these notes at the time they were made, and before they were delivered to the plaintiff, and that their purpose w as to give the weight of their names as sureties for the maker, and for his accommodation. \u201c If any one, not\u2019the payee of a negotiable note, or in the case of a note not negotiable if any party, writes his name on the back of the note at the time it is made, his signature binds him in the same way as if it was on the face of the note and below that of the maker. \u201d 1 Par. on Con. 206.\nIn Ray, et al, v. Simpson, 22 How. 341, a case directly in point, it was held, that the parties placed their names on the back of the note at its inception, \u201c not as a collateral undertaking, but as joint promisors with the maker, and were as much affected by the consideration paid by the plaintiff, -and as clearly liable in the character of original promisors, as they would have been if they had signed their names under the names of the other defendants upon the inside of the instrument.\u201d\nThese general principles establish the character and liability of Myrover and Lutterloh, the only defendants before this Court.\nOur conclusion is that they are sureties, liable to the plaintiff in the same manner as if their names had been signed upon the face instead of the back of these notes. This being so, of course no demand upon Robinson was necessary before suing Myrover and Lutterloh, and bis Honor very properly declined to charge the jury that there was evidence of laches on the part of the plaintiff. .\nIt is unnecessary to express any opinion as to what would have been their liability as guarantors, or as endorsers in the commercial sense, as we have seen that they are sureties.\nThe judgment below must be affirmed.\nPer Curiam. No error.", "type": "majority", "author": "Settle, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "B. Fuller, for the appellants,", "B. H. Battle," ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "GEORGE B. BAKER vs. BENJAMIN ROBINSON, HENRY L. MYROVER and THOS. S. LUTTERLOH.\nEndorsements by third persons of a note payable by A to B, \u2014 if made at the time of its execution, bind them, according- to the intention of the parties, either as joint principals or as sureties.\nAssumpsit, tried before Buxton, J., at Fall Term 1868 of the Superior Court of Cumberland.\nThe suit was brought upon four promissory notes made by Robinson, and payable to Baker. At the time that they were-delivered to Baker they had upon them the endorsement of Myrover and Lutterloh, and it was in evidence that they intended thereby to become sureties to Robinson.\nNo demand was made upon Robinson before bringing this suit.\nFor Myrover and Lutterloh it was insisted, below, that they were mere guarantors, and therefore, that a previous demand upon Robinson, with notice to them of his failure to pay, was necessary.\nHis Honor was of opinion that the peculiar character of the. guaranty in question, rendered such previous demand unnecessary.\nYerdict, for the plaintiff; Rule for a new trial; Rule discharged; Judgment, and appeal.\nB. Fuller, for the appellants,\ncited: Nichols v. Pool, 2 Ire. 23; Johnson v. Hooker, lb. 29; Yancey v. Littlejohn, 2 Hawks, 525; Johnson v. McGinn, 4 Dev., 277; Story, Prom. Notes 142* Topping v. Blount, 11 Ire. 62; Farrow v. Bespass, lb. 170.\nB. H. Battle,\ncontra. The present, as regards Myrover and Lutterloh is a contract of suretyship; 1 Par. Con. 206, and n.; Bay v. Simpson, 22 How. U. S. 341. If Myrover and Lutter-loh be guarantors, they must show themselves damaged by the alleged laches of plaintiff, or he may still recover. Farrow v. Bespass, 11 Ire. 170." }, "file_name": "0191-01", "first_page_order": 207, "last_page_order": 209 }