Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Burden

(after stating the'facts as above).

The obligations of Burden are to be ascertained from the terms of his applications. They were for supersedeas bonds, and it may be and indeed is argued that any such bonds, though to secure all the defendants, who appealed, would meet the terms of his applications. But such is an unreasonable interpretation of the acts of the parties. Burden was under no obligation to the other defendants, and had no reason that is apparent to furnish indemnity for them. He testified that all the other defendants, whose interests, were hostile to his, were represented by…