Severns v. English
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Comanche County; James R. Tolbert, Assigned Judge. Action by Armeline P. Broe, administratrix, and Arnold F. Broe, administrator, of the estate of George W. Broe, deceased, against J. O. .Severns, consolidated with an action by F. M. English, receiver. Prom a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
The cases before us consideration are the result of a long-continued and varied litigation. It appears that J.O. Severns, the plaintiff in error, bid for and received from the Secretary of the interior a certain contract for the installing of a sewer system in the city of Lawton. The digging of the ditches therefor was sublet by Severns to one John R. Hale, under a written contract between Hale as first party and Severns as second party, which was dated August 29, 1904. This contract provided that Hale was to dig and backfill the necessary ditches, amounting to 42,005 feet, for a flat price…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Severns v. EnglishSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1907
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