Tom Barrow Company v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

The question in this appeal concerns the application of “the Little Miller Act” (OCGA § 36-82-100 et seq.) to a materialman that furnished materials to a second tier subcontractor on a public works project. The record shows that the materialman, Tom Barrow Company, sued Ra-Lin & Associates, Inc., a general contractor, and St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Ra-Lin’s bonding company, under OCGA § 36-82-104 (b) on the payment bond required by OCGA §§ 13-10-1 and 36-82-101 for the amount owed, interest, and attorney fees, and that the defendants were granted…