Hess & Skinner Engineering Co. v. Turney
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Bastrop County. Though keeping on the docket the title given above, this case came to the Supreme Court on writ of error obtained by the Lion Bonding 6 Surety Co., on a judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals reforming and affirming the judgment of the trial court. The contest, both here and on appeal, being between plaintiff in error and the First Natl.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Bastrop County. Though keeping on the docket the title given above, this case came to the Supreme Court on writ of error obtained by the Lion Bonding 6 Surety Co., on a judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals reforming and affirming the judgment of the trial court. The contest, both here and on appeal, being between plaintiff in error and the First Natl. Bk .of Smithville and the Vincennes Bridge Co., over the distribution of a balance owing by the County of Bastrop on the contract' of the Hess & Skinner Engineering…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
The writ of error was granted to the Lion Bonding & Surety Company, who executed as surety a bond, dated May 1, 1914, wherein the Hess & Skinner Engineering Company was principal, to the County Judge and County Commissioners of Bastrop County, in the sum of $45,000, conditioned to be void if the Hess & Skinner Engineering Company should faithfully perform a certain contract between it and the County Judge and County Commissioners of Bastrop County, for the construction of a bridge, and should promptly make payments to all persons supplying said Company with labor and material in the…
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