Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Weil

OPINION OF THE COURT.

BICKLEY, C. J.

Clara Weil, H. S. Bowman, and Paul A. F. Walter have been, successively, guardian of a minor’s estate. Nathan Weil and L. C. Ilfeld are Mrs. Weil’s sureties, and Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland is Bowman’s1 surety. There having been a loss to the estate, Walter sued Mrs. Weil’s sureties and Bowman and his sureties. By agreement of the parties the liability was fixed at $6,000. By further agreement Mrs. Weil’s sureties paid one-half of this sum and Bowman’s surety the other half, leaving it to future litigation to determine the question of legal…