Powers Regulator Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

1. The judge did not err in ruling that the plaintiff, a supplier of materials to the defendant subcontractor Brandt-Jordan Corp., could recover from the defendant surety company on the payment bond given by the subcontractor to the general contractor. That bond was conditioned on the subcontractor’s making "payment to all persons supplying to [it] labor and material in the prosecution of the work provided for in [the] contract and [on the subcontractor’s] sav[ing] harmless the [general contractor] against any expenditure or loss ... arising from claims against the [general contractor]... by…