Board of Education v. United Supply

1. A public body which has entered into a contract for the construction of public work can not, by notice to a materialman of its intention to pay direct to the contractor all bills for material which may be furnished to the contractor by the materialman for the purpose of the contract, and that it will not be liable to the materialman for such material, relieve itself of the statutory liability imposed upon it by an act approved August 19, 1916 (Ga. L. 1916, p. 94), for loss to a materialman resulting from the failure of the public body to take the bond required under that act for the use of…