Roland Pugh Construction, Inc. v. R.C. Hagood

KENNEDY, Justice.

These appeals arise from a contract to install a sewer system for the Town of Phil Campbell.

The facts are as follows: In 1987, the Town of Phil Campbell (“Town”), having no sewerage facilities except septic tanks, hired an engineering firm to design a sewage collection system to service the Town and connect each residence to a sewage treatment plant.

The sewage collection system was designed to serve approximately 600 customers. Of that number, nearly half were to be connected to a conventional or gravity system (whereby wastewater flows by gravity from the residence all the…