London & Lancashire Indemnity Co. of America v. Board of Commissioners

The discussion of the legal questions involved will be based upon cause No. 17399, since it includes all the issues of the other cause and one additional issue.

The first issue to be discussed is the minor issue in the case, relating to the payment of $2,579.31 to parties furnishing material or performing labor, which payments were apparently made otherwise than upon estimates, and, therefore, not strictly in accordance with the provisions of the contract. Upon this feature the trial court reached the conclusion that the undisputed evidence disclosed that the payment of that sum of money…