Stith v. Patterson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “[t]he set-off right applies to government claims both under other contracts and under the same contract”
• “A surety bond 4 is a three-party relationship, in which the surety becomes liable for the principal’s debt or duty to the third party obligee.”
• “It is . . . a general principle of equitable subrogation that ‘one cannot acquire by subrogation from another, rights which that person did not have.’”
• “[N]otice that the contractor is in default and that the surety is invoking its rights to the remaining contract proceeds converts the government into a stakeholder with duties to the surety.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).