General Bonding & Casualty Ins. Co. v. Harlan

This is an appeal from a judgment against appellant in favor of the appellee for $350.

Appellant contracted with one McMahan for the building of a dwelling house in consideration of $4,200. After partly completing the house, McMahan, the contractor, being insolvent, abandoned the contract, he having been paid $3,245. Before this, at McMahan’s solicitation Harlan had purchased certain brick which went into the house. Besides the ijrice of the brick McMahan owed bills to the amount of $1,410 for material which he was under contract to furnish, and which was used in the house. After McMahan threw…