United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.

The appellant, United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, filed its bill in the chancery court seeking to recover from the appellees, Council Lewy Company and the surety on its bond, the amount of a judgment which had been recovered against it in the federal court by materialmen, also court costs and attorneys' fees.

Nothwithstanding that the court below sustained demurrers to the original bill, there was an amendment of the bill and the case was tried upon a stipulation of facts which admitted practically all of the allegations of the bill, but denied the legal conclusions of the pleader;…