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EX PARTE SOUTHWESTERN SURETY INS. CO.

No. 28, Original.

247 U.S. 19 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 430

62 L.Ed. 961

EX PARTE SOUTHWESTERN SURETY INSURANCE COMPANY, PETITIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Rule discharged May 20, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hayden Johnson and Mr. Thomas M. Fields for petitioner.

Mr. R. Randolph Hicks for respondent.

Memorandum opinion by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE, by direction of the court.

The statute (c. 280, 28 Stat. 278; c. 778, 33 Stat. 811) makes the district court of the district in which work contracted to be done for the United States is to be performed the forum for the assertion by supply creditors or material men of their claims against the contractor and the surety on the bond. It moreover authorizes one suit by all for the purpose of enforcing the liability of the...

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