Fleischmann Construction Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Forsberg

This is a suit under the Materialmen’s Act of 1894, 28 Stat. 278, c. 280, as amended by the Act of 1905, c. 778. It was brought in the name of the United States by Forsberg, a materialman, as use plaintiff, in the federal district court for Eastern Virginia, to recover on a bond given by the Fleischmann Construction Company, as contractor, and the National Surety Company, as surety, for the construction, under a contract with the United States, of a torpedo assembly plant in Alexandria. Various materialmen and subcontractors filed intervening petitions in the suit. The plaintiff and the…