Wells v. National Surety Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Action by Mark P. Wells against the National Surety Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOOEEEY, Circuit Judge.
This is an action against a surety on a subcontractor’s bond. Mark P. Wells,, the plaintiff below and the plaintiff in error, was the principal contractor, and was engaged in the construction of a convention hall for the city of Philadelphia. The E. E. Wells Contracting Company was a subcontractor, and E. E. Wells, who was in no way related to the plaintiff, was its president. The defendant was the surety on the subcontractor’s bond. The undertaking of the surety was that E. E. Wells Contracting Company “shall well and truly perform the terms and provisions of” a…
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