Dickerson v. Board of Commissioners

Bill in chancery by sureties to enforce an alleged equitable estoppel.

The bill alleges that Dickerson and John L. Shook were sureties, and David P. Shook principal, in a surplus revenue bond for the loan of 203 dollars, executed on the 11th of February, 1847, with interest payable in advance. The bond is stated to have been joint and several, but that the relation of principal and surety subsisting between the obligors was well known to the county officers with whom the loan was negotiated. It was due February 11, 1848. On the third of March, 1848, the ninth of March, 1849, and the fifth of…