MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COM. v. Dixie Contractors, Inc.

375 So.2d 1202 (1979)

MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

v.

DIXIE CONTRACTORS, INC.

No. 51465.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 10, 1979.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Frank E. Shanahan, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Shell, Buford, Bufkin, Callicutt & Perry, K. Hayes Callicutt, Jackson, for appellant.

Cox & Dunn, Vardaman S. Dunn, Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, SUGG and WALKER, JJ.

PATTERSON, Chief Justice, for the Court:

Dixie Contractors, Inc. brought suit in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County for additional compensation allegedly owing by the highway commission…