Key legal question
Whether Art. 510(3) OR requires the creditor to pursue the surety without significant interruption after unsuccessful action against the principal debtor.
Extracted holding
No. The accelerated pursuit requirement applies only to the principal claim, not to the subsidiary surety claim.
Extracted reasoning
By comparative interpretation, the Court distinguished the principal debt from the subsidiary surety obligation and rejected the view that the creditor must sue the surety in the same accelerated manner after proceedings against the principal debtor have failed.