TERRACINO v. GORDON AND HILLER

No. 29837.

1 A.3d 97 (2010)

121 Conn.App. 795

Jerome G. TERRACINO et al. v. GORDON AND HILLER et al.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decided June 22, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Lynch, Shelton, for the appellants (plaintiffs).

Robert W. Cassot, with whom, on the brief, were Cristin E. Sheehan, Hartford, and Kristine R. Jones, for the appellees (defendants).

FLYNN, C.J., and LAVINE and PETERS, Js.


PETERS, J.

This case lies at the intersection of two principles of the law of suretyship. One principle permits a guarantor expressly to waive common-law defenses to his liability for the debt of another. Connecticut National Bank v. Douglas, 221 Conn. 530, 544-45, 606 A.2d 684 (1992). The other principle presumes that, between coguarantors for the same debt, each coguarantor is liable only for a contributive share of...

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