Supreme Judicial Court of Maine January 26, 1904 (O'Neil v. Flannagan)

Strout, J.

Flannagan had a contract Avith the City of Portland to build a seAver. To protect the city, he gave it a bond Avith the American Bonding and Trust Company as surety, to perform his contract. To obtain this surety, Flannagan and Johnson, the present claimant, gave the surety company their bond" to protect it from loss on its bond to the city.