United States Ex Rel. Hardwood Products Corp. v. John A. Johnson & Sons, Inc.

SORG, District Judge.

John A. Johnson & Sons, Inc., entered into a contract with the United States of America for the construction of the Veterans Administration General Medical Hospital, in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as Principal, together with the other three defendants as Sureties, executed and delivered to the United States of America their joint and several payment bond under the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved August 24, 1935, C. 642, 49 Stat. 793, 40 U.S.C.A. § 270a et seq., known as the “Miller Act.”

On May 15, 1951, the defendant, John A. Johnson & Sons,…