Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 15, 1835 (Rank v. Shewey)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Kennedy, J.

—This is an action of assumpsit, and was brought in the court below by Christian Shewey, the defendant in error, to recover contribution for a loss sustained by him in being compelled to pay a balance due upon a bond in which he and David Rank, the defendant below and plaintiff in error, had joined as co-sureties and co-obligors with John H.