Atlantic Trust & Deposit Co. v. Union Trust & Title Corp.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Court of Law and Chancery of the city of Norfolk in an action of debt. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The Atlantic Trust and Deposit Company, plaintiff in error, is a surety company against which a judgment was rendered in favor of the Union Trust and Title Corporation upon a penal bond in which the Victoria Hotel Corporation was principal and the plaintiff in error was surety.
The principal question involved in the case is whether or not the surety company has been discharged from its liability by reason of misrepresentations made by, or with the knowledge and assent of, the obligee in the bond as to the contract the performance of which the surety had in part guaranteed.
At the time of the…
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