Leitner v. Lonabaugh

This is an appeal by plaintiff George W. Leitner from a judgment denying him recovery, as the obligee, on a bond signed by Emily Louise Ewing (formerly the spouse of plaintiff) as principal and obligor, and which defendants A. W. Lonabaugh, her father, and E. E. Lonabaugh, her brother, signed as sureties. To avoid confusion we hereafter refer to plaintiff as “Leitner” and to his former spouse as “Mrs. Ewing.”

The record discloses that Leitner and Mrs. Ewing were divorced on August 22, 1960, by a decree entered in the District Court for Sheridan County, Wyoming. 1 The decree, inter alia,…