To Use Of Int'l Bus. Mach.s Corp.. v. Lange
Decision Date | 02 June 1943 |
Docket Number | Nos. 20, 21.,s. 20, 21. |
Citation | 32 A.2d 693 |
Parties | BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CECIL COUNTY, to Use of INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, v. Philip LANGE et al. |
Court | Maryland Court of Appeals |
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Appeals from Superior Court of Baltimore City; Samuel K. Dennis, Judge.
Action by Board of Education of Cecil County Maryland, to the use of International Business Machines Corporation, against Philip Lange and Frederick W. Lange, trading as Lange Brothers, and the Aetna Casualty & Surety Company on performance bond given in connection with contract for construction of schoolhouse. From an order sustaining a demurrer to the second amended declaration the plaintiffs appeal.
Judgment reversed and case remanded.
Robert D. Bartlett and J. Kemp Bartlett, Jr., both of Baltimore, (Bartlett, Poe & Claggett of Baltimore, on the brief), for appellants.
Eugene Frederick, of Baltimore, for appellees.
Before SLOAN, C. J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, MARBURY, GRASON, MELVIN, and ADAMS, JJ.
This appeal is from an order sustaining a demurrer to the second amended declaration of the defendants', appellees', from which the plaintiffs appeal.
According to the facts in the declaration, all that we can consider, the Board of Education of Cecil County had awarded a contract to Lange Brothers for the construction of a school house at Cecilton, in Cecil County for $136,190. The contractor gave a bond to the Board of Education for the amount of the contract to indemnify the Board of Education against the claims of ‘All persons who have performed labor or rendered services' in the execution of the contract. On the same date, February 3, 1939, the contractors gave another bond, called a ‘Performance Bond,’ with the same surety whereby the principal agreed to ‘make prompt and faithful payment to any person furnishing labor or material for said work,’ and the matter of this ‘Performance Bond’ is the only one now before this Court, the labor and service bond having been ruled out on the demurrer to the first amended declaration and not incorporated in the second.
There are only two contentions on the liability and effect of the Performance Bond, the appellees' that this is a suit on a statutory specialty controlled by section 11, Article 90 of the Code (1939); the appellants', that by the terms of the bond the liability is not affected by the statute.
Section 11, Article 90 of the Code, which the appellees' insist bars the appellants' right to sue these appellees, is as follows:
There is one ground upon which the appellees could contend that they are not liable to the appellant, and that is that the one year limitation fixed by the statute had expired, the suit not having been brought within one year from the completion of the work, and this contention is predicated upon the further contention that the Board of Education of Cecil County is a State agency, the statute being applicable only to ‘the State of Maryland, or any of its agencies.’ Opposed to this, the appellants contend that it makes no difference whether the Board of Education is a State agency or not, the terms of the bond are such that it inures to the benefit of anyone performing labor or furnishing materials for the building. As we are of the opinion that the Board of Education in the construction of school buildings is not acting as a State agency, we...
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