Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1928

Felger v. Jersey Cereal Food Co.

Felger v. Jersey Cereal Food Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided March 14, 1928 · Moschzisker, Frazer, Walling, Simpson, Kephart, Sadler, Schaffer
141 A. 475; 292 Pa. 518; 1928 Pa. LEXIS 641

Felger v. Jersey Cereal Food Co.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

A joint judgment was confessed on two 'Separate warrants of attorney, the first of which authorized the entry of judgment against the maker of a certain note and the second a judgment against the payee, who had assigned the note and guaranteed payment to Ms assignee. On application of the executors of the last mentioned defendant, (who died after executing the guaranty and assignment indorsed on the note), the court below struck off the judginent as to him, saying, inter alia, “We are of the opinión that the [holder] of the note cannot enter a joint judgment against the maker and the endorser on the two separate confessions, because the promises of the maker and the guarantor are separate and distinct and do not constitute them jointly liable for the same debt.”

The above conclusion is sustained by Union Bank of Nanty-Glo v. Schnabel, 291 Pa. 228; see also Romberger v. Romberger, 290 Pa. 454.

The order appealed from is affirmed.

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