Jefferson Davis County v. Burkett
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Jefferson Davis county. Hon. R. E. Sheehy, Chancellor. Suit by Jefferson Davis county against B. Gr. Burkett and another. From an interlocutory decree sustaining demurrers ,to the bill, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
In December, 1911, the board of supervisors of Jefferson Davis county entered an order upon its minutes *438electing to have all the public roads of the county worked by contract, and providing for the submission of bids by proposed contractors. The order provided that, in letting the contract, the proposal should first be for working the public roads by districts, and then all the roads offered as a whole: and that, if'the bids by districts were cheaper, then the board would let separate contracts for the several districts, but that, if the price bid for all the public roads of the county was…
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- State v. ViceMississippi Supreme Court · 1894