Case Name: ISAAC H. REGISTER vs. SAMUEL CASPERSON and WILLIAM SHUTE
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1840
Citations: 3 Harr. 289
Docket Number: 
Parties: ISAAC H. REGISTER vs. SAMUEL CASPERSON and WILLIAM SHUTE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 289–289

Head Matter:
ISAAC H. REGISTER vs. SAMUEL CASPERSON and WILLIAM SHUTE.
Certioraiu to Justice Yeacb. Action on a promissory note for f 45, given by Casperson to Shute, and indorsed by him to Register. Joint action and judgment against the drawer and indorser.
Booth, for exceptants.

Opinion:
This was the exception; and the court reversed the judgment on this ground; because the liabilities of drawer and indorser being separate and distinct, arising from several contracts, and not from a joint contract, they could not be sued jointly.