Case Name: SAME CASE ON A RE-HEARING
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1857-08
Citations: 12 La. Ann. 880
Docket Number: 
Parties: SAME CASE ON A RE-HEARING.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 880–880

Head Matter:
SAME CASE ON A RE-HEARING.

Opinion:
Spofford, J.
A re-hearing is asked upon the question of prescription, as to the reconven tional demand.
That demand is not founded upon the promissory notes directly. It is a demand for reimbursement for moneys paid by the plaintiff as surety for the defendant. The suretyship is on negotiable paper, it is true; but it has, been held, that the prescription applicable to a demand by the holder upon the notes themselves is not applicable to the demand of the surety for reimbursement against his principal. This is a personal action which is barred only by ten years. C. C., 3508; Toledano v. Gardiner, 2 An. 779; Succession of Guillaume, ib., 636.
Re-hearing1 refused.