Arzuaga & Santana, Inc. v. Ramos Rivera

Mr. Justice Dávila

delivered the opinion of the Court.

A firm which supplied three transformers to a subcontractor of a public work claimed the value of those transformers from the bondsman of the principal contractor. The sum owed amounted to $1,859.72. Act No. 388 of May 9, 1951, 22 L.P.R.A. § 47 et seq., requires that every contractor of public works shall post a bond in order to secure the payment of the materials used in the work by the principal contractor as .well as by the subcontractor. Section 5 of the aforementioned act provides thus:

“Every person, natural or artificial, who has…