Case Name: CORDES v. LINDEMAN et al.
Court: Ohio Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1893-01
Citations: 18 Ohio C.C. 882
Docket Number: 
Parties: CORDES v. LINDEMAN et al.
Judges: Before Smith, Swing and Cox, JJ.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the circuit courts of Ohio
Volume: 18
Pages: 882–882

Head Matter:
(First Circuit — Hamilton Co., O., Circuit Court
Jan. Term, 1893.)
Before Smith, Swing and Cox, JJ.
CORDES v. LINDEMAN et al.
Joint and several note for goods, signed by purchaser and third: party — Both liable as makers—
Where after goods were delivered,in payment the vendor received a joint and several note,signed by the purchaser and a third party,both signers are makers and none is endorser as to such vendor, and the fact that he knew that one of the signers only received the goods, does not discharge the other signer from liability to the payee for want of consideration.
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county.
Keam & Keam, for Plaintiff in Error.
Louis J. Dolle, contra.

Opinion:
SMITH, J.
We think the judgment of the court of common pleas should be affirmed.
The notes sued on were joint and several promissory notes signed by F. Gunther and H. Cordes. Cordes was, therefore as to Lindeman, the payee,a maker and not an indorser, and was not entitled to have demand made on Gunther (who is conceded to have been the principal debtor) at the maturity thereof and if not paid to have notice thereof. Lindeman could let the notes run as long as he chose to do so, and if Cordes wanted suit brought he- could have paid them and sued Gunther himself, or have required the plaintiff, by written notice, to bring the action thereon.
The fact that the goods, for the purchase price of which the notes were given, had been delivered by Lindeman, the payee, to Gunther, the purchaser, a week or two before, the notes were signed and delivered, and that Lindeman knew that Cordes signed them as a surety did not make them as to Cordes invalid for want of'consideration. The good consideration therefor existing between Lindeman and Guntner, the principal debtor, is a good consideration for the contract of Oordes. Swan's Treatise, 569.