United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Zidell-Steinberg Co.

This is a suit to determine amount of plaintiff’s liability upon a contractors’ bond and to enjoin the prosecution of actions at law thereon by certain of the contractors’ creditors. From a decree requiring certain defendants to refund payments made by plaintiff to them and ordering the alleged balance due on said bond to be distributed pro rata among the contractors’ creditors, the plaintiff and the defendants, The Texas Company, H. J. Nelson and State of Oregon ex rel. Howard-Cooper Corporation, cross-complainant, appeal.

On December 27, 1932, the State of Oregon, acting by and through the…