Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Harlan & Hollingsworth

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<p>As the act of August 13,1894, relative to. contractors’ bonds prior to the amendment of February 24, 1905, contained no provision as to jurisdiction of courts in which suits could be brought on such bonds, the Circuit Court of the district in which the bondsman, if a surety company, has its principal office, had jurisdiction under the act regulating surety companies of August 13,1894, and this jurisdiction extended to suit's on bonds executed prior to the amendatory act for materials furnished after the passage of that act.</p> <p>The act of February 24, 1905, amending the act of August 13, 1894, and requiring that all suits on a contractor’s bond be brought in the district in which the. contract was to be performed, had merely a prospective operation and no retroactive effect. Dávidson Marblé Co. v. Gibson, 213 U. S. 10.</p>