WRIGHT CONTRACTING CO. v. SAINT PAUL MERCURY IND. CO.

Civ. No. 1201.

151 F.Supp. 179 (1957)

WRIGHT CONTRACTING COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. SAINT PAUL MERCURY INDEMNITY COMPANY, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, J. A. POLHILL, W. K. Dedmon, and Russell Stroupe, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

May 9, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lassiter, Moore & Van Allen, Charlotte, N. C., for plaintiff.

Carpenter & Webb, Charlotte, N. C., for defendant St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co.

Harvey A. Jonas, Jr., and W. H. Childs, Sr., Lincolnton, N. C., for third-party defendants.


WARLICK, District Judge.

This action is brought by plaintiff to recover of the defendant, Saint Paul Mercury Indemnity Company, the sum of $12,707.81 which it alleges it is entitled to have for that it was compelled to pay that amount in exoneration of its bond, previously executed in connection with a contract it obtained for road work in North Carolina.

The action is laid in this court under the diversity statute. Title 28 U.S.C. § 1332.

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