Baehr v. Wolf

At the March term, 1860, of the St. Clair circuit court,, three indictments were presented against the appellee Wolf, for complicity in an assault upon, and in the murder of, Andrew Koenig, and at the same term of the court Wolf entered into three separate recognizances in the sum of $300 each, with the appellant, Baehr, as his surety, for his appearance at the next term of the circuit court, to answer unto the indictments.

It is alleged in the bill that in July following, Wolf, for the purpose of indemnifying and saving harmless the appellant as his surety, conveyed to him a certain tract of…