Kahn v. Niagara Laundry & Linen Supply Co.

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

The opinion of the District Judge, reported in The Theodore Roosevelt, 291 F. 453, fully states the facts and the questions involved. They all lead up to the controlling problem — a determination of the character and effect of the $130,000 bond given by the appellants. This must be decided upon the principles involved, and as a new question; we find no helpful precedent.

This bond is said to have been given “under favor” of the amendment of March 3, 1899, to R. S. § 941 (Comp. St. § 1567). In one respect it is not the statutory bond; the law contemplates and regulates a…