United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Rome Concrete Pipe Co.

Total completion of the work may not in fact occur before acceptance. There may be substantial completion, then acceptance, and then final completion of punch-list type items later. I believe that is what the. legislature had in mind when it put both conditions into the statute. If “completion” in the sense used in the statute always preceded acceptance, i.e., meant “total” completion, then the condition of “completion of the work” would be of no effect and mere surplus-age. But the legislature deliberately required the happening of these two events before the statute would begin to run in…