Sampliner v. Maryland Casualty Co.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

Decision necessitates the interpretation of a written obligation executed by appellants’ decedent, Samuel S. Sampliner, to indemnify the appellee against loss upon a surety bond written by it for another. The sole question involved relates to the admissibility of evidence offered by the appellee to explain the writing and to identify its subject-matter. The facts sought to be established by parol evidence are not disputed. The result must be that, if the writing is clear and unambiguous, .and its subject-matter sufficiently certain, the appellants must prevail; otherwise…