Fletcher v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Vermont
[In Chancery.] Appeal from the court of chancery for the county of Addison. It was alleged in the bill, that the orators, together with John Jackson, Seymour Sellick, Royal H. Waller, John Howden, Edgar L. Ormsbee, Azariah Rood and Edward Jackson, on the twenty fifth of April, 1846, as sureties for Calvin.
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[In Chancery.] Appeal from the court of chancery for the county of Addison. It was alleged in the bill, that the orators, together with John Jackson, Seymour Sellick, Royal H. Waller, John Howden, Edgar L. Ormsbee, Azariah Rood and Edward Jackson, on the twenty fifth of April, 1846, as sureties for Calvin. C. Waller as principal, executed a bond in favor of Chester Baxter, William Steele and William Swett, in the penal sum of fifteen thousand dollars, with a condition thereto annexed, reciting that Ephraim D. Briggs, Chester Baxter, William Steele, Daniel Farrington, John Francis, George…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court'was delivered by
Redeield, J.
This is a bill in equity, brought by the orators, who were joint signers of á .bond,- with the defendants’ ancestor, for the faithful discharge _pf duty, by Calvin C. Waller, as agent and attorney, in regard to certain matters undertaken by him. He failed in that undertaking, and suit being brought on the bond, against the signers, with the exception of Jackson and some others, judgment was obtained, for the default of Waller, and the plaintiffs paid the amount, being some fourteen thousand dollars, (including costs,) besides counsel fees.…
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