American Surety Co. of New York v. Boden

Opinion of Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

These suits against D. C. Harter, a notary public, and the American Surety Company, surety on his bond, by S. D. Boden, Jr., and by William Bass and another, as partners under the firm name of Standard Motor Car Sales Company, are for damages sustained by reason of the false and wrongful certification on automobile bills of sale that Boden and Herbert Hudson had sworn to them before him (the notary). The causes being identical in nature, and seeking to recover against a common fund represented by the penal sum of the notary’s bond, they were…