Maryland Casualty Co. v. City of South Norfolk

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is the second appeal in a suit instituted in the court below to determine the liability of a surety under a contractor’s bond. Hudson & Scruggs, Inc., was the contractor, the city of South Norfolk, Va., was the obligee, and the Maryland Casualty Company was the surety. We shall refer t-o them hereafter as “the contractor,” “the city,” and “the surety,” respectively. The judge below referred the cause to a special master, who filed a report determining the amounts of the claims asserted by various materialmen under the bond. He reported that two general questions…