Gordon v. Rixey's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Fauquier county rendered September 10, 1888, in tlie chancery cause, styled Rixey’s administrator against P. M. Rixev. The decree being adverse to Charles IT. Gordon and other co-sureties of himself and John H. Rixey (the appellee), on the official bond of S. F. G. Beale, and as county treasurer, they appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
*854The facts of the case which we have to consider are, that, in 1872, S. F. G. Beale was elected treasurer of Fauquier county, and qualified as such, by executing his official bond, with William Beale, Charles H. Gordon, James W. James, John IT. Rixey, and Wellington Millón as his sureties.
The said treasurer, S. F. G. Beale, on the 15th day of November, 1872, executed a deed of trust to R. Taylor Scott, trustee, to indemnify and save harmless his said sureties from loss by reason of their said suretyship, by which he conveyed to said trustee certain real estate in Fauquier county, and personal…
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