Case Name: English v. Bourn
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1870-06-18
Citations: 7 Bush 138
Docket Number: 
Parties: English v. Bourn.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 70
Pages: 138–138

Head Matter:
Case 13 — PETITION ORDINARY
June 18.
English v. Bourn.
APPEAL PROM OWEN CIRCUIT COURT.
Verbal notice to sue insufficient to exonerate surety — In this case the surety claimed exoneration because, although his son told the holder of the note that his father “wanted him to sue,” and that written notice would be given if ho should require it, he said he would sue, yet failed to do so. Seid, the surety was not exonerated.
George C. Deane,........For Appellant,
CITED
4 Bush, 418, Hamblin v. McCallister.
T. N. & D. W. Lindsey,......For Appellee,
CITED
4 Bush, 418, Hamblin v. McCallister.

Opinion:
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant, claiming exoneration as surety because, although his son told the appellee that his father "wanted him to sue," and that written notice would be given if he should require it, he said he would sue, yet failed to do so, now complains of the judgment against him for the amount of the note.
To adjudge the exoneration of a surety on such facts would frustrate the wise policy of the statutory requisition of notice in writing. There was no express and certain aeeeptance of the son's suggestion as a formal notice to sue, or as a substitute of an explicit and peremptory notice in writing, as in the case of Hamblin v. McCallister, 4 Bush, 418.
Judgment affirmed.