Lieberman v. First National Bank

Lore, C. J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

Nathan Lieberman, the appellant, one of the sureties on two official bonds of Peter T. E. Smith, late paying teller of the First National Bank of Wilmington, has appealed in this case from the decree of the Chancellor, made December 3, 1898, which dissolved a preliminary injunction granted by the late Chancellor Wolcott, November 6, 1893, restraining the bank from collecting the amount of certain defalcations of Smith, made by him while acting as teller of the said bank.

The bonds bore date, respectively, November 1, 1879, and July 6, 1885. Each…