Goldberg v. Fuller

A man and his wife instituted an action of bail-trover against a man whose wife was sister of the first man’s wife. To avoid seizure of the property and arrest for failure to produce it, the defendant executed a statutory bond for the eventual condemnation-money, on which were certain individual sureties. On the trial of .the case a judgment was rendered against the defendant and the sureties for the value of the property. When the judgment was about to be enforced against the sureties, they instituted an equitable action to cancel it as to them, and enjoin its enforcement, on the ground that…