Vansant's v. Gardner's

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

These appeals involve the question of liability for contribution by the estate of one of the sureties on the bond of the late Barksdale Hamlett, as superintendent of public instruction of Kentucky.

On January 1, 1912, Hamlett’s bond for $25,000 was executed with J. C. O. Mayo, R. H. Vansant, and D. W. Gardner, as his sureties. In a suit filed by the commonwealth in June, 1916, judgment was rendered against the principal for $64,711 and against the sureties for $25,000, but it was reversed in part on appeal. Vansant, etc., v. Commonwealth,…