Legal Opinion
Maxwell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 13, 1925No. 2268PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in error, William H. Maxwell and the Globe Indemnity Company, hereinafter referred to as the contractor and the surety, respectively, were defendants below. The plaintiff there was the United States, herein styled the government. It sued them on the bond they had given for the performance by the contractor of his undertaking to build the post office at Columbia, S. C.
The surety says that the late Judge Smith, before whom the ease was tried below, had not been properly designated to hold the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of…
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