Miller v. . Pitts

This action was brought by tbe plaintiff, as a surety on tbe distiller’s bond of tbe defendant Abel Pitts, to recover. the amount which be was compelled to pay under a judgment recovered in tbe United States District Court for tbe Western District of North Carolina, against Pitts as principal and himself as surety, for $500, tbe amount or penalty of said bond. Tbe parties waived a trial by jury and agreed that tbe judge might find tbe facts, and it appears from bis findings that tbe bond was executed by Abel Pitts' as principal and tbe defendants Lee Miller and Thomas Epley as sureties. It…