Lindsey v. Parker
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, against Maria H. Parker, William Tinker, Norman Strickland, and E. L. Day, upon a bond executed by the first-named defendant as principal, and by the other defendants as sureties; and conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the plaintiff, who, as a deputy sheriff, had attached certain personal property on a writ in favor of the defendant Parker against one Willis, “ of and from all suits, damages, and costs whatsoever, whereunto he ... . may be liable, or…
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Contract, against Maria H. Parker, William Tinker, Norman Strickland, and E. L. Day, upon a bond executed by the first-named defendant as principal, and by the other defendants as sureties; and conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the plaintiff, who, as a deputy sheriff, had attached certain personal property on a writ in favor of the defendant Parker against one Willis, “ of and from all suits, damages, and costs whatsoever, whereunto he ... . may be liable, or obliged by law to pay to any person or persons, by reason of the said attachment.” Trial in the Superior Court, without a…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The only exceptions argued are, first, that it does not appear by any competent evidence that Norman Strickland was authorized by Mrs. Parker to agree to a settlement of the *585suit of Cannon against Lindsey; and, secondly, that the sum paid by Lindsey as counsel fees in said suit cannot be included in the amount for which execution is to issue.
It appeal’s by the report, that it was not contended that -the judgment entered in the suit by agreement “was collusive or fraudulent, either as affecting the parties to it or others collaterally affected by it, and it was not contended that Lindsey could…
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