Legal Opinion
Indemnity Insurance Company of North America v. Browning-Ferris MacHinery Company, John A. Petty and Joe J. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 9, 1955No. 15493PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Circuit Judge.
A ease so simple that master strategists could not possibly have planned it into complexity has inadvertently become so snarled that we must painstakingly unthread the backlash to assure the result so evidently required.
Browning-Ferris sued Petty, the primé contractor, Wilson, the subcontractor, and Indemnity Insurance, surety, on a Miller Act, 40 U.S.C.A. § 270, bond for unpaid rental charges for machinery used on a Government contract. Execution of the bond and the giving of the. 90-day notice by the materialman to the prime contractor, 40 U.S.C.A. 270b (a), was…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Fleisher Engineering & Construction Co. v. United States Ex Rel. HallenbeckSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Continental Casualty Co. v. SchaeferCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1949
- C. S. Grandey v. Pacific Indemnity CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1954
- Chisholm v. HouseCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1950
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- Lewis v. GoldsboroughDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1964
- Jack G. Levine and Eileen M. Levine v. Insurance Company of North AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
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