Sauer v. Detroit Fidelity & Surety Co.

There was considerable delay in bringing to a hearing a chancery suit for an accounting between Joseph Sauer, Cornelius Stomler, and Sydney C. McLouth, copartners engaged in dredging sand from the 'bays and channels of the St. Clair river. Sauer and Stomler each claimed McLouth owed 'him several thousand dollars for sand he had removed, and, after the case had been pending for more than a year, McLouth was required by order of the court to give them a bond in the sum of $5,000 conditioned to pay “any and all sums of money to be found by the said court to be due them for sand removed from the…