Stevenson v. Bay City

Stevenson was sued as one of the sureties, bound severally upon the official bond of Robert McKinney, controller of Bay City.

A ground of defense set up on the trial was, that he signed it on condition that it should not be delivered until executed also by certain others, who did not in fact sign it, and the court below refused to permit such evidence, offered in connection with a further offer to show that notice of this was given to James J. McCormick, officially, as' mayor of Bay City, and who, as well as the recorder, had power under the city ordinances, to approve the sureties of the…