Smith v. Rumsey

Graves, J:

Complainants and defendant Rumsey and one E. D. Tripp, on the 12th of April, 1871, became co-sureties on the township treasurer’s bond of one Edward L. Smith, a son of complainant Smith, and this Edward L. Smith became a defaulter. The township sued the principal and sureties on the bond, in the circuit court, and on the 17th of February, 1873, recovered judgment for damages, six thousand .six hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents, and costs taxed at forty-five dollars and thirty cents. Execution was stayed until April first, 1873, and was issued on the 3d of that…