Gall v. Bank
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Barbour County. Bill by Andrew J. Gall and others against the Tygarts Valley Bank. Decree for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BRANNON, PRESIDENT:
George W. Gall, Jr., was cashier of the Tygart’s Yalley Bank and as such executed an official bond in which Andrew J. Gall, Burton M. Gall and others were sureties, and a liability accrued to .the bank on the bond against the parties thereto on account of. said cashier’s misconduct, and the sureties, or some of them, and the bank, as the plaintiffs in this cause allege, made a compromise of the liability under the bond, by which compromise the sureties were to pay, and did pay, to the bank six thousand dollars in full discharge of the liability. Some time afterwards the…
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