United States v. Bangs
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, the United States, for the benefit of Henry Collins, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 9th day of March, 1909, as resettled and amended by an order entered on the 30th day of March, 1909, directing the plaintiff to file an undertaking for security for costs.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
The firm of Hughes Brothers & Bangs, of which the defendant Anson M. Bangs is the surviving partner, entered into a contract with the United States government to dredge Bay Ridge channel and Rod Hook channel in Hew York harbor. Pursuant to the provisions of an act of Congress' passed August 13, 1894 (28 U. S. Stat. at Large, 278, chap. 280; 2 U. S. Comp. Stat. [1901] 2523),' they gave a bond upon which the defendant the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company was a surety, conditioned for the making of prompt payment to all persons supplying to them labor or materials in the…
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