Township of Berlin v. Neidermeier

Defendant Bernard J. Neidermeier was township treasurer of Berlin township in Monroe county. The other defendants were sureties on his three official bonds. Plaintiff had judgments against all for the amount of Neidermeier’s shortages in office. Only one bond is here involved, given in April, 1931, when Neidermeier took office and ou which defendant Reaume and appellants Henry C. and Joseph O. Roelant were sureties. The Roelants were gratuitous sureties.

The bond was signed by the sureties but not by Neidermeier. No claim is made and no evidence was presented of waiver of the principal’s…