United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Putfark

LAND, Justice.

R. P. Farnsworth & Co., Inc., was the general contractor for the construction of the criminal courthouse and jail building in the city of New Orleans, and entered into a subcontract with the copartnership of Samuel Bird and Frederick Putfark to cover all plastering and lathing, etc., in the sum of $71,000.

The subcontractors applied to plaintiff surety company for a bond in this sum in favor of the general contractor and all materialmen, laborers, and claimants, and attached to the application an indemnity agreement signed individually by Bird and Putfark, whereby each of them…