People ex rel. National Cast Iron Pipe Co. v. Merkle

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action of assumpsit begun to the May Term, 1932, of the circuit court of Kankakee county by the People of the State of Illinois, for the use of the National Cast Iron Pipe Company (herein called appellant), and against E. J. Merkle, doing business as Merkle Contracting Company, and the National Surety Company (herein called appellees) to recover $14,620.68 for material sold and delivered to said E. J. Merkle and used in the construction of a water distribution and fire piping system at the State Hospital at Manteno,…