George H. Sampson Co. v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court respectively on March 14, 1904, and April 18, 1907, the first by the George H. Sampson Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, and the second by Alfred A. Hersey of Melrose, both of them against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and also against the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maryland, in the first case as surety on a bond…
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Two bills in equity, filed in the Superior Court respectively on March 14, 1904, and April 18, 1907, the first by the George H. Sampson Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, and the second by Alfred A. Hersey of Melrose, both of them against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and also against the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maryland, in the first case as surety on a bond given under the requirement of Pub. Sts. c. 16, § 64, and in the second case as surety on a bond given under the…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The first of these suits is brought against the firm of Shanahan, Casparis and Company, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, to recover for materials furnished to the above mentioned firm in the construction of parts of an aqueduct for the supply of the city of Boston and its suburbs with water, which parts of the aqueduct the firm agreed to build under contracts entered into with the metropolitan water and sewerage board, under the provisions of the St. 1901, c. 168. The Pub. Sts. c. 16, § 64, which were in force when these contracts were…
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