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.
Idaho Code § 59-820
Contribution between sureties
Known as the Surety Bond Act
The act spans §§ 59–59 (32 sections).
I.C., § 59-820, as added by 1971, ch. 136, § 75, p. 522.
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