United States First Circuit

The district court did not err in allowing a third party to take the place of plaintiff-beneficiary of a surety bond, and it also was correct in subsequently dismissing the third party's complaint where the bond limited the defendant-surety's liability to the original named beneficiaries.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2004
• Published 08/30/2004

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and STEARNS,U.S. District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Juan Ramón Cancio, with whom Rodney W. Colon-Ortiz and Cancio Covas & Santiago, LLP, were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Francisco Rosa Silva, with whom Juan J. Hernández-López de Victoria, Juan A. Ortiz-Cotto and Rosa-Silva, Rosa-Domenech & Hernández-López de Victoria, PSC, were on brief, for appellee.