United States ex rel. Merrill v. Great American Indemnity Co.

PORTERIE, District Judge.

By a written contract dated the 16th day of October, 1939, between the United States and United Construction Company, a partnership composed of John Charles Barcelona and Sam Alíelo, that partnership obligated itself to the United States to construct for the United States a certain public work, a levee, near Hamburg in the Alexandria Division of the Western District of Louisiana. The total amount to be paid under this contract was $14,666.28. In connection with the contract, United Construction Company furnished to the United States a payment bond for the sum of…