State v. Blanchard Construction Co.
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Shawnee district court, division No. 1; Alston W. Dana, judge. STATEMENT. The Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, a corporation engaged in writing surety bonds for compensation, appeals from a judgment against it in favor of the state of Kansas upon a surety bond by the terms of which the insurance company guaranteed the performance of a certain contract entered into between the Board of Regents of the Kansas State Agricultural College and the Blanchard…
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Appeal from Shawnee district court, division No. 1; Alston W. Dana, judge. STATEMENT. The Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, a corporation engaged in writing surety bonds for compensation, appeals from a judgment against it in favor of the state of Kansas upon a surety bond by the terms of which the insurance company guaranteed the performance of a certain contract entered into between the Board of Regents of the Kansas State Agricultural College and the Blanchard Construction Company. In the contract the construction company agreed to erect a mechanical engineering building and to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Porter, J.:
It is conceded at the outset that the rules of strict construction which control in cases of accommodation sureties are no longer applied in the case of a bond written by a corporation engaged in the business of furnishing surety for compensation. (Hull v. Bonding Co., 86 Kan. 342, 120 Pac. 544; Medical Co. v. Hamm, 89 Kan. 138, 130 Pac. 650; The Y. M. C. A. v. Ritter, 90 Kan. 332, 133 Pac. 894; Guaranty Co. v. Pressed Brick Co., 191 U. S. 416, 24 Sup. Ct. Rep. 142, 48 L. Ed. 242; Note, 23 A. & E. Ann. Cas. 1085; Note, 33 L. R. A., n. s.,…
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