Ransom v. United States

OPINION

BRUGGINK, Judge.

The case is presently before the court on defendant’s motion to dismiss Count I and for summary judgment as to Count II, and on plaintiff’s cross-motion for summary judgment as to Count I, and for partial summary judgment as to Count II. The two counts of the complaint raise the following questions: Count I) When the United States is obligee on a bid bond, is it contractually obligated to pass along to the bid bondsmen information relevant to the risk being secured, so that if it does not do so, the bondsmen are relieved of their subsequent assumption of duties under…