Downs v. Goodwin

This controversy grows out of the folio wing facts:

H. E. Bland, during his lifetime, was a road building contractor, and prior to his death, which .occurred in the eárly part of March, 1921, had entered into contracts with Jasper, Nacogdoches, and ' San Augustine counties to build and construct roads and highways in those counties, and had executed bond for the perfornlance of such contracts. When Bland died, these contracts had not been fully performed; but, on the contrary, the work to be done under them being largely unfinished.

Shortly after Bland’s death, E. D. Downs, appellant, was…