United States Ex Rel. Johnson v. Morley Const. Co.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The original defendants, the Maryland Casualty Company and the Morley Construction Company, appeal from a judgment against them, entered upon the verdict of a jury of one, in an action upon a construction contract between the Morley Company and the Veterans Administration of 'the United States, for the erection of a hospital at Batavia, N. Y. The Maryland Casualty Company was the surety upon this contract; the plaintiff, Johnson, was a sub-contractor of the Morley Company, doing the roofing and other parts of the building: Rupp, Harrington’s testator, was the…