National Surety Co. v. Johnson

Apprehending that it would need sureties in its future contracts with municipal corporations and the like, a corporation called the Consolidated Contract Company, with the defendant J. Harris Johnson, and others not appearing here as comakers, executed and delivered to the plaintiff their joint and several contract under seal whereby they agreed to pay premiums on all bonds to be thereafter executed by the plaintiff here for the Contract Company, covenanting that the liability formulated by the instrument would continue until all other obligations had been discharged, and principally

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