McMillan v. Bull's Head Bank

This was a suit by the Bull’s Head Bank *12against James T. and Samuel E. McMillan and James Goddard, upon a joint and several bond executed by them in a penalty of fifteen thousand dollars, with a condition reciting, that James T. McMillan had become a member of a certain firm in New York, rendering it probably necessary for him to use more funds in the business of the firm than he would have at command, and which he proposed to borrow ;• and then proceeding thus: “Now the foregoing bond is to be in force and binding upon us, according to its terms, for the full amount of any loans and advances…