Bates County v. Wills
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of' the United States for the Western District of Missouri; Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, Judge. Action by A. V. Wills and others against Bates County, Missouri. Judgment for the plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Per curiam
A. B. Wills, W. V. Wills, and Emmett S. Wills, the plaintiffs below, brought an action against Bates county, Mo., to recover the amount which they alleged that that county owed them for excavating a part of the third section of a certain drainage ditch in that county under a contract between the county and Timothy Foo-hey & Sons, dated May 2, 1906, which, so far as it concerned the third section of the ditch, Foohey & Sons had assigned to the plaintiffs. In the course of the performance of the contract the plaintiffs encountered stone which they claimed that they were not required to remove…
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