Maryland Casualty Co. v. Washington National Bank

In 1914 the commissioners of Kittitas county entered into four road-building contracts with certain • persons for whom plaintiff is surety, each contract providing that, while the contractor might have current payments to eighty per cent, the final twenty should not be paid until thirty days after the work should be accepted and the board be satisfied by receipts that all debts had been paid to laborers and materialmen. Only one road was built under a statute requiring this last provision, but there is nothing in the statutes under which the others were built (Rem. 1915 Code, § 5879-9)…