People ex rel Alton Banking & Trust Co. v. National Surety Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee

delivered the opinion of the court.

On February 28,1919, Katheryn Gerdes gave a bond in the county court of Madison county in the sum of $10,000 as guardian for her minor son, John Irving Gerdes, with Kate Phelan, Annie Phelan and E. H. Dorsey, as sureties. On February 25, 1920, she gave another bond as such guardian in the sum of $20,000 with plaintiff in error, National Surety Company, as surety.

This suit as originally started was against Katheryn Gerdes and those persons who signed the first bond as her sureties and plaintiff in error her surety on the second…