Legal Opinion
Brown & Haywood Co. v. Ligon
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
Decided March 17, 1899No. 3,981PublishedCited by 7 opinions
This was a suit in equity by a judgment creditor of a building contractor and the sureties on his bond (such sureties joining as complainants) to enforce an underwriting bond taken by the sureties,
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, District Judge..The laws of the state of Washington provide as follows:
“Whenever a board of county commissioners of any county of this state * * * shall contract with any person or persons to do any work of any character which, if performed for an individual, a right of lien would exist under the law, * * * such board of county commissioners * * * shall take from the person with whom such contract is made a good and sufficient bond, with two or more sureties, * * * which bond shall be conditioned that such person shall pay all laborers, mechanics and material men, and persons who shall…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Locke v. HomerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
- Conner v. . ReevesNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Johnson v. RiskSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- United States ex rel. Anniston Pipe & Foundry Co. v. National Surety Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1899
- Salmon Falls Bank v. LeyserSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Red Wing Sewer Pipe Co. v. DonnellySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
- Dieckmann v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1909
- Crump & Trezevant, Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1933
- Johnson v. MartinWashington Supreme Court · 1915
- Gottsegan Cicar Co. v. LevyUtah Supreme Court · 1913
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