Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Tucker

The superintendent of the Osage Indian Agency entered into three separate contracts, on’behalf of three different Indians, with T. H. Moler, by the terms of which Moler agreed to construct certain buildings and improvements upon the restricted lands of these three full-blood re strieted Osage Indians, the three contracts being identical with the exception of the parties for whom the improvements were to be made and the character of the construction. There was a provision in the contracts reading as follows:

“It is further agreed by the party of the second part that he will furnish a bond…