California Court of Appeal January 27, 1920, Civ. No. 2529. (Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.)

SHAW, J.

Robert P. McMullen was the contractor for the construction of certain schoolhouses for the Tropico School District and, pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 2895, entitled, “An act to secure the payment of the claims of materialmen, mechanics, . . . employed . . . upon . . . municipal, or other public work” (Deering’s Gen. Laws, 1915, p.