Bodkin v. Merit
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Switzerland Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
The complaint of the appellants asks that a judgment and decree, rendered against them in an action on a mortgage executed to appellee to indemnify him against loss upon an undertaking as surety, may be reviewed and set aside upon the ground that the complaint in the former action was insufficient.
The objection first urged against the complaint in the former action is, that it does not show that the plaintiff in that action suffered any loss or paid any money on account of his suretyship. The complaint does not show that the surety has paid the indebtedness for which he was liable, but it…
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