Shelton v. American Surety Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
DAEEAS, Circuit Judge.
But little, if anything, need be added to the opinion of the court below. 127 Fed. 736. It sufficiently states the material facts and correctly applies the law.
This court has this day decided, in the case of Zeigler v. Hallahan, 131 Fed. 205, that any material alteration of the principal contract, to which an undertaking of suretyship is attached, discharges the surety; and the question which this case presents is whether the same consequence results where the contract, though not avowedly altered, is materially departed from, by the principal parties to it, without the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Guaranty Co. v. Pressed Brick Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Shelton v. American Surety Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1904
- Zeigler v. HallahanCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1904
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- Morgan v. SalmonNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1913
- Equitable Surety Co. v. Board of Com'rs of Muddy Bottom Swamp Land Dist. No. 1Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1916
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