Dunphy v. Gorman

Kingston obtained a judgment in the Circuit Court against Dunphy and four other persons, from which an appeal was prosecuted unsuccessfully to the Appellate Court, whereupon an action was brought upon the appeal bond and judgment w.as rendered accordingly against the original judgment debtors and their sureties, upon which latter judgment the appellees, Gordon and Long, who were two of the sureties, paid in part satisfaction thereof $516.75, the residue being paid by other parties thereto.

The appellees then filed their bill in chancery charging that after the original judgment was obtained…