Cowles v. J. C. Mardis Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Cou-rt. — Hubebt Utterback, Judge. Action in equity on a written contract, entered into between plaintiff as owner, and J. C. Mardis Company and J. C. Mardis, as sole proprietor of the Mardis Company, as general contractor, whereby the said contractor was to purchase all material and employ all labor necessary to complete, and to erect and complete an office building in Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiff; and against the United States Fidelity &…
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Appeal from Polk District Cou-rt. — Hubebt Utterback, Judge. Action in equity on a written contract, entered into between plaintiff as owner, and J. C. Mardis Company and J. C. Mardis, as sole proprietor of the Mardis Company, as general contractor, whereby the said contractor was to purchase all material and employ all labor necessary to complete, and to erect and complete an office building in Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiff; and against the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, of Baltimore, on its bond, guaranteeing the performance of said contract by the contractor; and against a…
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
J. C. Mardis Company is a trade name used by J. C. Mardis; and for the sake of brevity, we shall refer to the Mardis Company and Mardis as Mardis, or the general contractor ; and the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company will be referred to as the surety company or bonding company.
The record is a very long one, and we shall attempt to abbreviate and to avoid repetition by stating the issues, which alone take up nearly 100 pages of the abstract, and by stating so much of the contract provisions as seem to be material to the controversy, and by stating the more important facts in a…
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- United States v. Utah, Nevada & California Stage Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Beers v. WolfSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Boyd v. Cedar Rapids Ins.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1886
- Ward v. HarenMissouri Court of Appeals · 1909
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