Board of Commissioners v. Dorsett
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from E. B. Jones, /.«April Term, 1909, of Davidson. Civil action, to determine tlie relative liabilities of sureties, by reason of a judgment on the official bond of their principal, a former sheriff of Davidson County. From the judgment of the court, H. C. Grubb, one of the sureties, having excepted, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
At a former term of the Superior Court, judgment had been duly rendered in favor of plaintiffs on the official bond of defendant T. S. F. Dorsett, a former sheriff, and his sureties, for the penalty of the bond, to-wit, $30,000, to be discharged on tbe payment of $10,879.82, tbe amount of tbe default. Tbe cause having been continued for further orders and decrees, and to determine tbe liability of tbe sureties as among themselves for the- amount of such default, on tbe bearing it appeared that tbe bond bad been executed for $30,000 by the defendant sureties, and at tbe time 'same was executed…
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