Singleton v. Shepherd

Plaintiff and defendant were co-sureties for one Robertson on Ms forthcoming bond in an attachment suit against him. Judgment was rendered in December, 1898, against all three for $2321.48, and it bore six per cent interest. Robertson was insolvent. After-wards, in June, 1900, defendant, paid the judgment plaintiff five hundred dollars for a release from, the judgment “and from all liability therefor and obligation thereunder, without however releasing his co-obligors.” About seven years afterwards this plaintiff, with knowledge of defendant’s payment and release, paid the judgment plaintiff…