NATIONAL SHAWMUT BK. OF BOSTON v. NEW AMSTERDAM CAS. CO.

No. 7260.

411 F.2d 843 (1969)

The NATIONAL SHAWMUT BANK OF BOSTON, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. NEW AMSTERDAM CASUALTY CO., Inc., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Bradley Ryan, Boston, Mass., with whom Morris I. Bearak, Newton, Mass., Milton Bordwin and Guterman, Horvitz & Rubin, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

Samuel H. Cohen, Boston, Mass., with whom Avram G. Hammer, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

R. Robert Popeo, Haskell Cohn, Laurence R. Buxbaum and Mintz, Levin, Cohn & Glovsky, Boston, Mass., on brief for First Nat. Bank of Boston, amicus curiae.

G. Stanley Lowden, Michael Glazerman and Peabody & Arnold, Boston, Mass., on brief for Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co., amicus curiae.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In the summer of 1962, Anderson Bros., Inc., a general contractor, entered into three construction contracts with the United States Air Force for work at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts and Dow Air Force Base in Maine. As required by the Miller Act, 40 U.S.C. § 270a et seq., Anderson Bros., Inc. applied to the appellee (surety) for payment and performance bonds. Contained in the application for the bonds was an assignment to the surety...

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