TITLE 59

PUBLIC OFFICERS IN GENERAL

CHAPTER 8

BONDS OF OFFICERS AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

59-820.  Contribution between sureties. Whenever the sureties on either bond have been compelled to pay any sum of money on account of the principal obligor therein, they are entitled to recover, in any court of competent jurisdiction, of the sureties on the remaining bond, a distributive part of the sum thus paid, in the proportion which the penalties of such bonds bear one to the other and to the sums thus paid respectively.

History:

[59-820, added 1971, ch. 136, sec. 75, p. 522.]