DAVIDSON MARBLE CO. v. GIBSON

No. 78.

213 U.S. 10 (1909)

DAVIDSON BROS. MARBLE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES ON THE RELATION OF GIBSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1909.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edwin M. Ashcraft for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Robert T. Devlin and Mr. Henry P. Brown, for defendant in error, submitted.


MR. JUSTICE MOODY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The decision of the court below proceeded upon the erroneous assumption that the act of February 24, 1905, 33 Stat. 811, c. 778, was retrospective. That act amended the act of 1894 in several important particulars, which it is not necessary to state, and provided specifically that a suit upon the bond should be brought by one furnishing...

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