Legal Opinion

Seaboard Surety Company v. Westwood Lake, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided May 30, 1960No. 18077PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Including the State Court proceedings against Westwood Lake, Inc., the owner, brought by American Cast Iron Pipe Co., a furnisher of material to the contractor, in which the receiver for the insolvent contractor intervened, there is quite a large record in this case. All, however, that is involved here is the correctness, of a judgment entered in a suit brought by a surety, which had bonded a contractor, against an owner which had employed the contractor to work on the two projects covered by the bonds, one for $214,000, the other for $190,000, and also on other…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Town of River Junction v. Maryland Casualty Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
  2. Lake County v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1935
  3. Siegmund v. General Commodities CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1949
  4. Higgins v. Shenango Pottery Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1958
  5. Russell C. House Transfer & Storage Co., Inc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Wallace G. Frederick v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
  2. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. Hendry CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
  3. Excavators & Erectors, Inc. v. Bullard Engineers, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
  4. Eastern Steel Const. v. International FidelitySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2022
  5. Heritage Ins. Co. v. FOSTER ELEC. CO. INC.District Court of Appeal of Florida · 1981

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