Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States

MADDEN, Judge. '

The plaintiff seeks to recover from the United States $1,987.22 which the plaintiff paid to materialmen and laborers whom the Columbia Foundation Company, Inc., failed to pay. Columbia had, about February 3, 1940, made a contract with the United States for the installation of a condensing water supply connection at the National Gallery of Art. It was required by law to furnish two separate bonds, one guaranteeing its performance of the contract, and the other guaranteeing its payment of material-men and laborers from whom it might obtain supplies or services in the performance…