Rider v. Lenoir County

Plaintiffs first filed an injunction bond in the sum of $200. Thereafter, in compliance with an order of the court, they filed bond in the sum of $15,000, with the National Surety Corporation as surety. This constituted a novation and served to discharge the original bond. So then, the first question posed for decision is this: Are the plaintiffs and their surety, the National Surety Corporation, liable in any amount to defendants by reason of the wrongful issuance of the temporary restraining order herein? We must answer in the negative.

It is true the plaintiffs, in seeking to prevent the…