Griffith v. Rundle

Citations

• 23 Wash. 453
• 55 L.R.A. 381
• 63 P. 199
• 1900 Wash. LEXIS 377

Syllabus

<p>PRINCIPAL AND SURETY — LIABILITY OP SURETIES-GOVERNMENT CONTRACT-PROTECTION OP MATERIAL MEN AND LABORERS.</p> <p>Where a bond has been given by a contractor engaged in the construction of a public work for the United States, in accordance with me provisions of the act of Congress of August 13, 1894, entitled “An act for the protection of persons furnishing materials and labor for the construction of public works,” parties who supplied the contractor with materials or labor have a right of action on the bond against the sureties, irrespective of any right of the government under the bond, although the sureties may have undertaken the contract after its abandonment by their principal and may have expended in its completion, in excess of the contract price, a sum amounting to more than the penal obligaron of the bond.</p>