Coffing v. Dungan

There is only one question in this case, which, however, is presented by different assignments of error. Concisely stated, the facts are, that on the 31st day of March, 1891, the appellants William W. Merritt and Benjamin F. Crane, as principals, and William B. Coffing, as *387surety, executed to appellee Robert R. Dungan, the note which is the foundation of the action; that on the 1st day of March, 1885, said appellee as principal, and said Merritt and Crane as his sureties, became indebted^ by note to one Sewell, which debt said sureties were compelled to and did pay on the second of April,…