Legal Opinion
Foster v. Kerr & Houston, Inc.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided May 3, 1935PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBarnes, J.
This is an action of debt brought by George S. Foster, Treasurer of the State of Maine, against the Standard Surety and Casualty Company of New York, and comes forward on report, with an agreed statement of facts.
It is founded on a surety bond on which Kerr and Houston, Inc.s appears as principal, the defendant as surety, and the plaintiff as obligee, and is brought in the name of the obligee for the benefit, or to the use of the American Bridge Company, Charles R. Bailey and the Augusta Lumber Company, as to each of whom it is admitted that he furnished labor or materials, or both, to the…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Fosmire v. . National Surety Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1920
- Knapp v. SwaneyMichigan Supreme Court · 1885
- Byram Lumber & Supply Co. v. PageSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- Lyman v. City of LincolnNebraska Supreme Court · 1894
- Town of Gastonia v. McEntee-Peterson Engineering Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1902
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3Cited by5 opinions
- McFarland v. RogersSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1936
- Carpenter v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1965
- Carpenter v. SusiSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1956
- Davis v. American Surety Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1949
- Verrier ex rel. E. S. Boulos Co. v. American Fidelity Co.District Court, D. Maine · 1958