Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.

This is an action of contract to recover the balance due from the defendant as surety on a bond, which was given to the plaintiff to dissolve an attachment in a suit brought by it against Stuart-Howland Company and was approved by the court on August 4, 1919. The bond recites that Stuart-Howland Company as principal, and the defendant as surety “are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto” the plaintiff- “in the full and just sum of fifty thousand dollars;” the condition being that “if the above-bounden Stuart-Howland Company shall pay to the plaintiff in said action the amount, if…