Federal Surety Co. v. City of Staunton ex rel. McWane Cast Iron Pipe Co.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

This is an appeal by the Federal Surety Company from a verdict arid judgment against it as surety upon a contractor’s bond, in which the only question submitted to the jury was as to the amount and value of materials furnished by the McWane Cast Iron Pipe Company to the contractor in the construction of certain public improvements for the city of Staunton, Ill.

Appellant brings up more than a hundred •exceptions to various rulings of the court, .grouped under some eight different headings, but the only two questions which we think deserve consideration are:.First, was…