Francis v. Domino

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

In the spring of 1928, the appellant, Carr Creek Community Center, a private corporation engaged in educational work in Eastern Kentucky, and hereinafter called the Community Center, decided to build a schoolhouse and a teachers’ cottage on the Flax Patch Branch in Knott county. It entered into a contract with Marion Francis, one of its directors and its coappellant herein, to construct these buildings for the contract price of $7,500. The buildings were to be constructed in the main with stone quarried from a nearby quarry. Francis later entered…