Curtis v. Banker

The plaintiffs, who were sureties on the official bond of Oliver Holman, late an additional paymaster in the army of the United States, having been compelled to pay to the United States certain sums due from him for moneys received by him and not accounted for, together with interest thereon, bring this action against the defendant, who is one of seventeen persons who had executed to them a subsidiary bond, by which they severally promised to reimburse, each in the proportion which one thousand bears to twenty thousand, but not exceeding *356one thousand dollars for each, such sums as the…