93 S.E. 713 | S.C. | 1917
October 2, 1917. The opinion of the Court was delivered by Appeal from an order of the Circuit Court, which allowed a new party defendant to be brought in. There are five person to the controversy: The Mack Manufacturing Company, hereinafter called the Mack Company; the Massachusetts Bonding Insurance Company, hereinafter called the Bonding Company; the Carolina National Bank, hereinafter called the bank; the city of Greenville, hereinafter called the city, and Bowe and Page, hereinafter called the contractors.
The controversy arose out of a contract between the city and the contractors for the paving of the streets of the city. The Bonding Company were sureties for the contractor; the Mack Company supplied brick for the work; the bank advanced money to the contractors. The bank sued and recovered from the city for the money it had advanced, claiming as security an assignment by the contractors of the moneys to be paid them by the city.
The Mack Company sued the Bonding Company on the surety bond for the brick it had furnished the city. That suit is pending, and it is the instant case.
We think the order is not appealable; it affects no substantial right of the bank. We express no opinion about the soundness of the Bonding Company's contention; that would be premature. All the Bonding Company asks, and all the Circuit Court granted, was a chance to try the question made. The Bonding Company was not party to the case between the bank, the city and the contractors, reported in
The appeal is dismissed.
MR. JUSTICE WATTS did not participate in the consideration of this case. *166