United States v. Alberico

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• finding a letter stating, “please consider this letter formal demand that any monies due under the above contract be forthwith distributed to and placed with [the surety]” as sufficient notice of default
• finding a letter stating “please consider this letter formal demand that any monies due under the above contract 16 be forthwith distributed to and placed with [the surety]” as sufficient notice of default
• surety’s letter implying imminent default of contractor and asserting the surety’s rights to remaining contract funds triggered the Government’s stakeholder duty upon receipt before disbursement of final contract funds
• receipt of demand from plaintiff surety for unpaid contract funds triggered Government’s stakeholder duty
• “The question of standing to sue is raised by the Government because of the rule that in order for a surety to share in the fund unexpended under the contract, it must first pay all of the claims of the laborers and materialmen.”
• government as stakeholder owes duty to surety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).