Johnson v. McConnel

How courts have described this case

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• “[Wjhere the principal is in default, and the surety executed the bond in ignorance thereof, he will not be bound, where knowledge of such default was withheld from him by the obligee, but ... where the surety has knowledge of [the default], the bond is good.”
• “[W]here the principal is in default, and the surety executed the bond in ignorance thereof, he will not be bound, where knowledge of such default was withheld from him by the obligee, but . . . where the surety has knowledge of [the default], the bond is good.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).