Corns-Thomas Engineering & Construction Co. v. County Court of McDowell County

POEEENBARGER, PRESIDENT :

The subject matter of complaint on this writ is the award of a new trial in an action of assumpsit, brought for recovery of compensation for alleged extra work under a contract for the construction of two concrete abutments and the necessary *371■wing-walls, for each of two bridges across the Tug River in McDowell County, one of which is known as the Roderfield bridge and the other as the Negro Branch bridge. Under the contract, the plaintiff not only built the four abutments and the wing-walls, but also made the excavations for the same, and the work sued for as being…