Wyatt Metal & Boiler Works v. Lipscomb

SELLERS, Justice.

In 1931 Wyatt Metal & Boiler Works sold and delivered to three of the county commissioners of Fannin county metal culverts, the price of the culverts being something over $11,000. In February, 1932, a claim against Fannin county was filed with Smith ■S. Lipscomb, the duly appointed county auditor, for approval covering said culverts, which claim was not allowed or approved by said auditor for the reason that said culverts had not been purchased by Fannin county in accordance with the law in that the commissioners’ court had passed no order authorizing the purchase of such…