State Ex Rel. Penn Lubric Oil Co. v. Lyle

— This is an action instituted in the name of the State of Missouri at the relation of the Penn Lubrie Oil Company against the defendant J. C. Lyle, contractor, and the Globe Indemnity Company, the surety on a road contractor’s bond, executed in connection with a contract which defendant Lyle had with the Missouri State Highway Commission to do certain work on a State highway project in Clinton county in said State. The bond running to the State is dated July 18, 1923, and was executed under the provisions of section 1040, Revised Statutes 1919.

Relator, the Penn Lubrie Oil Company, and the…