Russell v. Copiah County

The appellant, George W. Russell, a road contractor, filed this suit against Copiah county, seeking to recover a balance of one thousand eight hundred thirty-four dollars and eighty-seven cents alleged to be due him under a two-year contract for working and maintaining the dirt roads of district No. 2 of that county; the amount sued for being the payment alleged to be due under the contract for the last quarter of the second year of the period covered by the contract. The defendant filed a plea of the general issue, and gave notice thereunder that it would offer proof to show that the…