Higenbotam v. Green

How courts have described this case

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• holding that surety was bound by principal’s criminal liability when the very issues sought to be litigated had been exhaustively and conclusively litigated in the prior criminal proceedings
• turnpike commissioner’s bond; criminal liability of principal determines surety’s liability on principal’s official bond
• turnpike commissioner's bond; criminal liability of principal determines surety's liability on principal's official bond
• decisions uniformly hold that liability of surety limited to actual damages sustained
• “In the case of a judgment of acquittal or nolle prosequi, Pennsylvania has consistently followed the rule that the criminal judgment is not admissible as evidence to prove that the defendant did not do the act complained of.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).