Arnold v. United States ex rel. W. B. Guimarin & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Action by the United Slates, for the use of W. B. Guimarin & Co., against R. H. Arnold, doing business as the R. H. Arnold Company, and the Globe Indemnity Company, to recover on the bond of a government contractor, in which other subcontractors and materialmen duly filed their petitions of intervention.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Action by the United Slates, for the use of W. B. Guimarin & Co., against R. H. Arnold, doing business as the R. H. Arnold Company, and the Globe Indemnity Company, to recover on the bond of a government contractor, in which other subcontractors and materialmen duly filed their petitions of intervention. Judgment for the plaintiff, after trial of his claim alone, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDIDD, Circuit Judge.
On the 3d of October, 1917, the plaintiff in error R. H. Arnold entered into a contract with the United States to erect and furnish materials for the erection of a certain storehouse in the United States navy yard at Charleston, S. C. At the time of entering into said contract, the Globe Indemnity Company, also plaintiff in error, as surety, obligated itself, in the penalty of $65,190, 'for the faithful performance of the contract by the Arnold Company; said contract and bond being severally entered into and executed in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 13th of…
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