W. T. Andrew Co. v. Mid-State Surety Corp.

after remand

The plaintiff, W. T. Andrew Company, Inc., was a sub-subcontractor on a construction project at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. It seeks to enforce a claim under the public works bond act. The circuit court’s judgment in favor of the plaintiff has twice been reversed by the Court of Appeals, whose judgment we now affirm.

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When this case was before us in 1996, we set forth the facts:

In May of 1989, the University of Michigan decided to renovate buildings at its Dearborn campus. In order to facilitate this project, it hired A. Z. Shmina & Sons, a general contracting firm. Shmina…