24 Mo. 184 | Mo. | 1857
delivered the opinion of the court.
The notice was that defendant “ would not stand good as security any longer,” and we think the Circuit Court was right in declaring it to be insufficient as a requisition to sue within the meaning of our statute. In Greenawault against Kreider, (3 Barr. 265,) the security, after referring to a note held by the party against a third person, in which the party giving the notice and another were sued to be bail, formally notified the payee that “ he would no longer be considered bail,” and requested him 11 to take another bond from the principal or payment,” and this was held to be an insufficient requisition to sue, and the remarks of the court in that case are marked with much good sense. The request “ to take payment,” it is said, might