Guard Rail Erectors, Inc. v. Standard Surety & Casualty Co.

The statute (Laws 1927, c. 88, s. 1) extends the mechanics’ lien law so as to give its benefit to those furnishing labor or materials on public work of construction. By section 2 it requires the contractor in certain cases to give a surety bond to pay “all who would have liens under section 1,” and subjecting the surety to suit by any lienor. The bond in suit by its terms secured “anyone who, in the absence of this bond, would be entitled to a lien” as provided by the statute cited, and its conditions were that the contractor should perform its contract, pay for all labor and materials…