United States v. American Surety Co.

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit at common law, brought on the same bond which is under consideration in this court in the cause in equity of the American Surety Company against the I,aw-renceville Cement Company and others. It is enough to say that William Morgan, one of the defendants in this case, was a contractor with the United States, and that the other defendant, the American Surety Company, is a surety on his bond as such contractor. In the equity cause the American Surety Company filed its bill, alleging that the claims on it as surety for Morgan, including the claim of the…