SEABOARD SURETY CO. v. H & R CONSTRUCTION CORP.

Civ. No. 2690.

153 F.Supp. 641 (1957)

SEABOARD SURETY COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff, v. (1) H & R CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, a Minnesota corporation; (2) H. H. Rohr; (3) H. C. Nelson and Sidney A. Nelson, doing business as H. C. Nelson Investment Co.; (4) H & R Construction Corporation, a Minnesota corporation, and H. C. Nelson Investment Co., co-partners doing business under the firm name and style of H & R Construction Corporation; (5) State of Minnesota, acting by and through M. J. Hoffman, its Commissioner of Highways; (6) Fred E. Tripp; (7) The First National Bank of Saint Paul, Minnesota; (8) The Lummus Company, a Delaware corporation; (9) Woodrich Construction Co., a Minnesota corporation; (10) Rosholt Equipment Co., a Minnesota corporation; (11) The George T. Ryan Company, a Minnesota corporation; (12) Wm. H. Ziegler Co., Inc., a Minnesota corporation; (13) Rocket Transfer, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, and John Doe, Richard Roe, Jane Doe, and all other persons, firms and corporations, bureaus, agencies, authorities or other agencies who have or claim to have any right or claim under the within mentioned payment bonds, or any of them, or against plaintiff by reason thereof, or against the within mentioned unpaid contract balances, or any of them, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Minnesota, Third Division.

July 5, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas, Bradford, King & Collatz, Paul C. Thomas and Frederick A. Collatz, St. Paul, Minn., and Matthew J. Levitt, Minneapolis, Minn., appeared on behalf of plaintiff.

Briggs, Gilbert, Morton, Kyle & Macartney, by Frank J. Hammond, St. Paul, Minn., appeared on behalf of defendants H. C. Nelson, Sidney A. Nelson and H. C. Nelson Inv. Co.

George N. Guttmann, Minneapolis, Minn., appeared on behalf of defendants H & R Const. Corp. and Harlyn H. Rohr.

Nunan, Quealy, Colwell & Bauman, by A. J. Greffenius, Minneapolis, Minn., appeared on behalf of defendant Rocket Transfer, Inc.

Frank E. Clinite and Charles F. Kelly, Minneapolis, Minn., appeared on behalf of defendant Armco Drainage and Metal Products Co.

Sullivan, Stringer, Donnelly & Sharood, by Robert O. Sullivan, St. Paul, Minn., appeared on behalf of defendant Borchert-Ingersoll, Inc.

W. M. Kronebusch, Minneapolis, Minn., appeared on behalf of defendant Wm. H. Ziegler Co., Inc.

Charles J. Foley, Minneapolis, Minn., appeared on behalf of J. V. Gleason, doing business as the J. V. Gleason Co.


DONOVAN, District Judge.

This suit, seeking broad relief against the defendants, arises primarily out of plaintiff's bonding H & R Construction Corporation, a Minnesota corporation, hereinafter referred to as H & R, in connection with eight contracts, most of which had to do with public work contracted for by H & R. H. C. Nelson and Sidney A. Nelson, doing business as H. C. Nelson Investment Co., and hereinafter referred to as the Nelsons, are, together...

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