Taylor v. Guinan

The plaintiffs had been supplying a dredge at the hire of $40 per day to one Michael Flannery, who was a contractor engaged in dredging out the Shrewsbury river. Flannery had given to the United ¡States a contractor’s bond, upon which the defendant was a surety. By the act of February 24, 1906, chapter 778 (32 Slat, at Large, p. 811), *263such sureties are made answerable for claims by any subcontractors. Plaintiffs’ work for Flannery began in the spring of 1906. About the first part of June, Flannery’s payments fell behind, so that another subcontractor who furnished the steam tug stopped work,…