American Surety Co. v. Wheeling Structural Steel Co.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in a suit instituted by the American Surety Company, hereafter referred to as the surety company, surety on a bond executed by the Detroit Steel Erection Company, hereafter referred to as the construction company, to the Wheeling Structural Steel Company, hereafter referred to as the steel company. The two companies last named, with Pike & Cook, Inc. and certain creditors of the construction company were made defendants in the suit, the purpose of which was to determine the liability of the surety company under the bond and, by way of subrogation, to…