Leonard v. State Highway Department

On June 25,1963 plaintiff, H. George Leonard, doing business as H. George Leonard & Sons, entered into a contract with defendant State highway department to do cleaning and painting work on bridge structures.

It appears that the plaintiff went ahead with the work and discovered the situation complained of, i.e., the existence of large areas of rust underlying apparently sound paint on the bridge surface, which prevented adequate cleaning by the steam-cleaning method called for in the original contract. It further appears that upon discovery of this situation, the plaintiff entered into an…