State Ex Rel. Crane Co. v. Stokke

In the year 1929 one Iver Stokke, a resident of this State, was a sole trader engaged in the heating and plumbing business, operating sometimes under his individual name and sometimes under the name of Stokke Heating & Plumbing Company. During that year Stokke entered into five different contracts, which for convenience we will refer to by the Nos. 1 to 5 in the chronological order of the contracts, the date used in each instance being the date of Stokke’s application for surety bond upon the respective contracts. They were as follows:

No. 1, May 17, 1929, a contract with the State of South…