Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0835-04.html
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Author: {"author": "ALLEN, J. -", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 1069
    No. 19656
    The Southern Surety Company v. Frank Chambers, et al.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga county.
    1139. SURETY BONDS — Compensation surety bond for the erection of a public building under 2365-1 GC., available to material-men and sub-contractors regardless of terms written into policy by contracting parties.
   ALLEN, J. -

Under Section 2365-1, et seq., of the General Code, a bond given by a compensated surety in connection with a contract for the erection of a public building, which agrees to indemnify a board of education of a municipality for loss occasioned in the erection of the school building in question, but. fails to. comply with the provisions of Section 2365-3, et seq., that such bond shall contain an additional obligation for the payment by the con-, tractor and by all sqb-contractofs for all la-, bor performed or materials furnished in the' construction, erection, alteration or repair of such building, works or improvements, is available for recovery by material men and subcontractors for all labor performed or materials furnished in the construction, erection, alteration or repair of such bujlding, works or improvements, regardless of the terms and conditions written into the policy by the contracting parties.

Judgment affirmed.

Marshall. CJ., Jones, Matthias, Day, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.