63 Miss. 121 | Miss. | 1885
delivered the opinion of the court.
The writing sued on is, in terms and effect, a contract of indemnity, and the extent of the right of the appellees is to recover so much from the appellant as they were required to pay by reason of their suretyship for Wilson, the delinquent guardian. The extent of the guardian’s liability was fixed by the decree of the chancery court, and all of it paid by the guardian, except the sum ■of one hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventy cents, which was paid by the sureties. The amount of their liability as fixed by the chancery court (and by the contract the sum so adjudged by that court was to govern the rights of the parties), is not now, nor was it at any time uncertain, and it is the measure of the right of the appellees against the appellant.
The judgment is reversed, and the suit dismissed for want of jurisdiction in the circuit court.