West Virginia Code § 45-1-2

Discharge of surety, guarantor or indorser by failure of creditor to sue
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If such creditor or his committee or representative shall not, within a reasonable time after
such notice, institute suit against every party to such contract who is a resident in this state,
and not insolvent, and prosecute the same with due diligence to judgment and by execution,
he shall forfeit his right to demand of such surety, guarantor or indorser or his estate, and
all his cosureties and their estates, the money due by any such contract for ethe payment of
money, or the damages sustained by any breach of the collateral condition or undertaking
specified as aforesaid. But the conditions, rights, and remedies againstr the principal debtor
shall remain unimpaired thereby.

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