Elk River Concrete Products Co. v. American Cas. Co. of Reading

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Plaintiffs, Elk River Concrete Products Company, Sta-Vis Oil Company, and Northfield Iron & Culvert Company, all corporations, are claimants under separate public contractor’s bonds executed by defendant, American Casualty Company of Reading, Pennsylvania, a corporation, as surety, for and on behalf of H. J. Fredrickson, contractor in three separate highway contracts with the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota, for unpaid charges for materials furnished Fredrickson under such contracts.

For its defense American Casualty Company, hereafter referred to as…