Guarantor's Obligation Scope and Suretyship Law Interpretation

A dispute arose concerning an agreement where a party guaranteed the payment obligations of another party to a creditor; when the debtor defaulted, the creditor sought payment from the guarantor. The court ruled on appeal that the guarantor's obligation was indivisible and subject to the law governing suretyship, finding that the lower court erred in its interpretation of the scope and conditions of the guarantee by improperly equating it with a joint and several obligation under the general terms of the contract, thus necessitating the quashing of the lower court's decision.