Smith v. Covington County

Appellant instituted this suit against Covington county and the present board of supervisors thereof, alleging in his declaration that he had entered into a legal, valid, and binding oral contract with the board of supervisors of Covington county to do certain road construction work in said county; that in pursuance of said contract he expended a large amount of money and did a large amount of road construction work, for which the board of supervisors failed and refused to pay him; that for work done in supervisors’ districts Nos. 3 and 4 of said county he presented to a former board of…