Wyoming MacHinery Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

RAPER, Chief Justice.

The sole question presented in this appeal is whether a contractor’s bond written by the appellee, United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, written to Medicine Bow Coal Company, is available to satisfy a claim made by the appellant, Wyoming Machinery Company, as a third-party beneficiary to the bond, when the principal contractor, H. L. Gracik Construction, Inc. (Gracik), became financially unable to pay for equipment rental, labor, and materials supplied by appellant to Gracik.

The district court in a brief, conclusory letter decision found that the bond and contract…