A. J. Wolfe Co. v. Baltimore Contractors, Inc.

A subcontractor for electrical work (Wolfe) on a Cambridge apartment house owned by Frederick and Thomas Dupree (the owners) seeks, in an action at law, to recover from the general contractor (Baltimore) for amounts due under the subcontract and for extras and, by a bill in equity, to reach and apply a bond given by The Aetna Casualty and Surety Company (Aetna). The law action and the bill in equity were consolidated for trial and, after *363trial, the trial judge ordered that they be “fused into a single proceeding,” i.e. the bill in equity.

The trial judge made somewhat summary findings which he…