Trimount Dredging Co. Ex Rel. Brown & Hooff v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

A general contractor for work done for the United States government sues the surety on a bond given to it, the general contractor, by a subcontractor, to recover the cost of labor and materials furnished to that subcontractor bnt not paid for by him. The work was, completed and accepted, but the- subcontractor executed an assignment for the benefit of his creditors before these debts for labor and materials were paid. The question is whether there was any obligation undertaken by the subcontractor’s surety to indemnify the genera! contractor against loss, by reason of its undertaking with the…