Indiana Truck Co. v. Standard Accident Insurance

This action, which grows out of a controversy over the payment for certain highway construction work in St. Louis County, proceeds upon the theory of money had and received. The case has to do with the question of the validity of certain assignments made by the principal contractor to a subcontractor on the job and by him in turn made over to plaintiff, the same relating to funds alleged by plaintiff to have been due and owing to the subcontractor's assignor from St. Louis County, but paid by the latter instead to defendant, the surety for the principal contractor, in disregard of plaintiff's…