Evans & Howard Fire Brick Co. v. National Surety Co.
South Dakota Supreme Court
A-ppeal from -Circuit Court, Codington County. Hon. AViluiam -N. Skinner, Judge. Action -by Evans & Howard -Eire Brick Company, a corporation, against the National Surety Company, a corporation, to recover upon a contractor’s surety bond. From an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint, defendant appeals.
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A-ppeal from -Circuit Court, Codington County. Hon. AViluiam -N. Skinner, Judge. Action -by Evans & Howard -Eire Brick Company, a corporation, against the National Surety Company, a corporation, to recover upon a contractor’s surety bond. From an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint, defendant appeals. (3) To point three of the opinion, Appellant cited; Lawrence v. Fox, 20 N. Y. 268; Lyth et al v. Kingston, 43 N. Y. S. 653, 14 A-pp. -Div. 11; Buffalo Cement v. McNaughton et al, 90 Hun. 74; Edward J. McCabe -Co. v. Luke A. Burke & Sons Co., 'Inc., (New York Law Journal, April 5, 1917);…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
Appeal from an order overruling defendant’s demurrer to plaintiff’s complaint. The allegations of the complaint, so far as material to this appeal, are substantially as follows ;
*114That on August 23, 1915, the Offerman Construction Company entered into a contract with the city of Watertown for the construction of certain sanitary sewers. That, as a condition precedent to awarding said contract, the ctiy of Watertown required said contractor to give a bond which was furnished by the National -Surety Company, defendant and appellant, and contained the following recitals and conditions:
“That we,…
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