Case ID: conn-supp_3/html/0015-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ELLS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED LUMBER AND SUPPLY COMPANY vs. JOHN A. MacDONALD, HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
    Superior Court New Haven County
    File #46633
    Present: Hon. ARTHUR F. ELLS, Judge.
    Arthur Klein, Attorney for the Plaintiff.
    Attorney General, Attorney for the Defndant.
    MEMORANDUM FILED AUGUST 17, 1935.
   ELLS, J.

Instead of proving that the claim was filed within sixty days the plaintiff has conclusively shown that it was not so filed. Nor was it proved that the plaintiff was the owner of the claim sued on. Furthermore, the State in its contract expressly prohibited this kind of a subcontract, and actually did not know DiMauro was a subcontractor. It had every reason to believe, and did believe, that he was one of Di Martino’s men. To hold that the State cannot protect itself by contract from, or provide against, subcontractors it does not wish to employ and expressly refuses to employ, is a ruling this Court would not care to make.

There is an allegation that the State was protected by a bond conditioned for the faithful performance of the contract according to its provisions. One of its provisions excluded Di Mauro.

The Statute, 1113 B, giving the right to file a claim against the State, gives it to “any person having any claim for ma' terials and labor used in the execution of such contract.” This plaintiff, in my opinion, is not such a person.

Assuming, without'deciding, that the Statute gives a right to sue the State, I conclude that this plaintiff is not one to whom such a right was given, and that if he was, he has not fulfilled the requirements.

Judgment is for the defendant.