Legal Opinion
In Re Flotation Systems, Inc.
District Court, S.D. California
Decided May 2, 1946No. 43745PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
YANKWICH, District Judge.
On December 14, 1943, the Defense Plants Corporation, an agency of the United States, and Flotation Systems, Inc., the contractor and bankrupt, entered into a contract for the construction of a sewage disposal plant at the Ryan School of Aeronautics at Hemet, California. The contract required the contractor to furnish a bond in the penal sum of $23,819.97, under the Act of the Congress, known as the Miller Act.
The bond was actually executed with the National Automobile & Casualty Insurance Company, one of the respondents, as surety. The contractor was adjudicated a…
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