Helms Willis v. Unicoi County

delivered tlie opinion of the Court.

Helms & Willis, building contractors, filed the bill herein against Unicoi County, to recover an alleged balance of $362.63 due for labor performed in part construction of a school building. The chancellor entered a decree in favor of complainants for the sum sued for. The Court of Appeals reversed the decree of the chancellor and dismissed the bill. A petition for writ of certiorari has heretofore been granted by this court and argument waived.

Before the building was completed, it was destroyed by fire,-and the .other courts differed as to which of the…