United States v. Mattingly Bridge Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Miller Act did not apply to the construction of an interstate highway where the U.S. was not a party to the contract and there was no bond issued in favor of the U.S.
• holding that Miller Act applies only in these situations based on its construction of word “contracts” as covering only contracts between United States and prime contractor, not contracts to which United States was not a party
• Miller Act applies to contracts between United States and prime contractors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).