ASSIGNMENT OF CHOSES IN ACTION 349

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1763, ch. 23, sec. 8.

1880, ch. 161, sec. 6.

6. When any person shall recover a judgment against the principal
debtor and surety, and the amount due on the judgment shall be satis-
fied by the surety, the creditor or his attorney of record shall assign the
same to the surety, and such assignment being filed in the court where the
judgment was rendered, the assignee shall be entitled to execution in his
own name against the principal for the amount so paid by the surety.

Where the holder of a promissory note gets judgment against an indorser who pays
the same, the latter is entitled to the benefit of this section. The judgment creditor
cannot refuse to make an assignment, because the maker of the note has a defense as
against the payee. Wallace v. Jones, 110 Md. 147.

Equity will compel the assignment under this section, and a full payment by a surety
has been held to operate of itself as an assignment. Hollingsworth v. Floyd, 2 H. & G.
90; Creager v. Brengle, 5 H. & J. 234; Wallace v. Jones, 110 Md...147.

The entire judgment must be satisfied, as there can be no pro tanto assignment.
Hollingsworth v. Floyd, 2 H. & G. 91.

This section is to be construed in connection with secs. 7 and 8. It applies if the
surety pays the judgment or any balance due thereon. McKnew v. Duvall, 45 Md. 507.

This section applies only when a judgment has been rendered against the surety, hence
where the surety dies before judgment, his administrators are not entitled to an as-
signment of the judgment recovered against a principal. Wilson v. Ridgely, 46 Md. 246.

Where a judgment in favor of the state is paid by a surety, the attorney for the
state has no authority under this section to assign the judgment. But see sec. 8.
Peacock v. Pembroke, 8 Md. 348; McKnew v. Duvall, 45 Md. 508; Wilson v. Ridgely,
46 Md. 245.
. This section is declaratory of the common law. Watkins v. Worthington, 2 Bl. 529.

This section referred to in construing sec. 5—see notes thereto. Fuhrman v. Fuhrman,
115 Md. 442.

Cited but not construed in Martindale v. Brock, 41 Md. 581; Winder v. Diffenderffer,
2 Bl, 199.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1912, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1888, sec. 7. 1763, ch. 23, sec. 8.
1864, ch. 243. 1880, ch. 161, sec. 7.

7. When any judgment shall be rendered against several sureties and
the amount unpaid on said judgment shall be satisfied by said sureties or
by any one of them, the plaintiff shall be obliged to assign such judgment
to the surety or sureties satisfying the same, who shall be entitled to execu-
tion in his or their names against the other sureties in the judgment, for a
proportionable part of the said judgment so paid by the said assignee; pro-
vided, that no defendant shall be precluded or debarred of his remedy
against the plaintiff, or his co-sureties by audita querela, or other equitable
course of proceedings.

The design of this section was to place a surety in the same position as the creditor,
and to clothe him with the latter's rights. Colegate v. Frederick Savings Inst., 11 G. & J.
122; Wallace v. Jones, 110 Md. 147.

This section applies only when a judgment has been rendered against the surety;
hence where the surety dies before judgment, his administrators are not entitled too
an assignment of the judgment recovered against co-sureties. Wilson v. Ridgely, 46
Md. 246.

Where a judgment in favor of the state is paid by a surety, the attorney for the
state has no authority under this section to assign the judgment. But see sec. 8. Pea-
cock v. Pembroke, 8 Md. 348; McKnew v. Duvall, 45 Md. 508; Wilson v. Ridgely,
46 Md. 245.

The act of 1763, ch. 23, only confers the right to make the assignment upon the
original creditor, and not upon his equitable assignee. Neptune Ins. Co. v. Howard,
3 Md. Ch. 338; Creager v. Brengle, 5 H. & J. 239.

This section is to be construed in connection with secs. 6 and 8. MeKnew v Duvall,
45 Md. 507.

Cited but not construed in Hickinger v. Hull, 5 Gill, 77.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1912, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 8. 1888, sec. 8. 1864, ch. 243.

8. In any case where judgment shall be recovered by the State against
any principal debtor and a surety or sureties, and said judgment shall be