Southern Surety Co. v. Dawes

The last question will be answered first. Section 1 of the act approved August 19, 1916 (Acts'1916, p. 94; Park’s 1922 Code Supp. § 389(c)), requires persons contracting with 'municipal corporations for the doing of any public work to give bond payable to the municipal corporation, “with good and sufficient surety, for the use of the obligee and of all persons doing-work or furnishing skill, tools, machinery, or materials under or for the purpose of such .contract, conditioned,” etc. Section 4 of the act (Park’s-1922 Supplement, § 389(f)) provides that “any person entitled to the protection…