125 Ga. 463 | Ga. | 1906
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The relief sought by the Seaboard Air-Line Railway, in its petition to intervene, was to continue of force the $35,000 bond, and charge this bond with any amount in which the Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad Company might be liable for contribution to the petitioner, by reason of a judgment that had been obtained and on judgments that might be thereafter obtained in suits pending against the Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad Company and petitioner. The bond for $35,000 existed by reason of the final
The bond represented the corpus of the property. Any sums paid to satisfy claims, the payment of which the bond was intended to protect, were in the nature of payments on the purchase-
Judgment affirmed.