Legal Opinion

Village of Cambridge, Illinois, for the Use and Benefit of R. Clyde Shilling v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided March 31, 1958No. 12120_1PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PARKINSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict of $9,072 in favor of the plaintiff on a contract performance bond executed by Frederick N. Frank, Inc., the contractor, as principal and the defendant as surety.

There is no conflict in the evidence. The facts are that Frederick N. Frank, Inc. entered into a contract with the Village of Cambridge, Illinois for the construction of a sanitary sewer system; that it gave an Illinois statutory performance bond with the defendant as surety conditioned upon the payment of “all sums of money due or to become due for any labor, materials,…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Hardaway v. National Surety Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
  2. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Board of Water Com'rs of City of DunkirkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1933
  3. United States Ex Rel. Dorfman v. Standard Surety & Casualty Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1941
  4. Hanson v. Liberty Const. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1931

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Tri-State Employment Services, Inc. v. The Mountbatten Surety Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2002
  2. United States ex rel. First Continental National Bank & Trust Co. v. Western Contracting Corp.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
  3. US for Use and Ben. of Wfi Georgia v. Gray Ins.District Court, N.D. Georgia · 2010
  4. United States v. Western Contracting CorporationCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1965
  5. United States v. Gray InsuranceDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2010

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