County of Yalabusha v. Carbry
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error, from the Yalabusha Circuit Court. The defendant in error, Thomas Carbry, on the 6th February, 1843, presented a petition to the board of police of Yalabusha county, praying to be allowed the sum of $6437.53, on account of ♦work done on the Court-house of the county, under a contract made between the board of police and one Bennet J. Higgins.
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In error, from the Yalabusha Circuit Court. The defendant in error, Thomas Carbry, on the 6th February, 1843, presented a petition to the board of police of Yalabusha county, praying to be allowed the sum of $6437.53, on account of ♦work done on the Court-house of the county, under a contract made between the board of police and one Bennet J. Higgins. It was stated in the petition that Higgins had employed Carbry to do the wood-work on the Court-house, and had drawn an order on the board of police which was accepted, requesting them to pay to Carbry in instalments, according to payment to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clayton
In the year 1838, one Bennet Higgins entered into a written contract with the president of the board of police of Yalabusha county, for the building of a Court-house for the county. Afterwards Thomas Carbry, the defendant in error, made a sub-contract with Higgins to do the wood-work of the building, and received an order for the amount to be paid him upon the board of police, which order was approved and accepted by the board. After some years, -and after the completion of the work, as Carbry alleges, he presented the amount of his claim . against the county to the board of police, to be…
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