Bateman Brothers v. Mapel

This action was prosecuted by plaintiffs against the defendant Mapel, as principal, and the defendant American Surety Company of New York, as surety, for the sum of two thousand dollars, damages sustained by plaintiffs by reason of defendant Mapel’s breach of a contract between himself and the plaintiffs, for the due performance of which contract the American Surety Company became responsible as surety. The action was tried against the Surety Company alone.

Mapel had entered into a contract with the plaintiffs to supply the latter at the site of the Hall of Justice building in San Francisco…