United States for the Benefit of Collins v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 1st day of November, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from respective orders entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of November, 1909, denying the defendants’ motions for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J. :
Hughes Brothers & Bangs, a copartnership composed of James Hughes, Eugene Hughes and Anson H. Bangs, entered into a contract with the United States government on the 31st day of July, 1899, for the dredging of Bay Bidge channel and Bed Hook channel in Hew York harbor. The Contractors, pursuant to the act of Congress, approved August 13, 1894 (28 U. S. Stat. at Large, 278, chap. 280; 2 U. S. Comp. Stat. [1901] 2523), gave a bond in which defendant, the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, became the surety. This bond provided, among other things, that the said Hughes Brothers…
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