MacINTYRE, P. J.
1. Code § 103-101 provides: "The contract of suretyship is one whereby a person obligates himself to pay the debt of another in consideration of credit or indulgence, or other benefit given to his principal, the principal remaining bound therefor. It differs from a guaranty in this, that the consideration of the latter is a benefit flowing to the guarantor." This is but one of the distinctions between suretyship and
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