Michaels v. McRoy
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Lapeer; Lockwood, J., presiding. Case by Louis Michaels and Edward Michaels, co-partners as Michaels Brothers, against Robert McRoy, Charles Marshall, Charles Palmer, Frank Rathsburg, George Ryman, and Joseph Taylor, board of trustees of the village of Imlay City, for failure to require the statutory bond of a contractor for the construction of a public hall. There was judgment for defendants on a verdict directed by the court, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The defendants were trustees of the village of Imlay City, in 1902, at a time when the village council let to Hulbert & Co. a job for building a village hall. The council neglected to take the bond required by 3 Comp. Laws, §§ 10743, 10744, and 10745. The plaintiffs were copartners who furnished materials to Hulbert & Co. for the building, and of the price of the same there remained unpaid the sum of $388.92, for the recovery of which they began suit, by declaration, against the defendants, in February, 1905. Upon the trial, counsel for the defendants, who had pleaded the general issue,…
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