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Suretyship-Application Of Payments From Principal To Creditor-Equity Of Surety In Building Contract Funds
Michigan Law Review
A building contractor's bond, with professional surety, promises to see that all laborers and materialmen assisting upon a certain construction job are fully paid. With moneys received from work upon this building, the contractor pays a certain sum to a materialman without applying it to any particular debt. The contractor owes the materialman upon two separate debts: one for materials furnished upon this very job, and covered by this surety bond; and a pre-existing debt, in no way connected with the present contract. Is the surety able to insist that the materialman use this payment to discharge the debt on …