Hall v. Commonwealth ex rel. Ferguson

I concur in the result. In my opinion, whether a contract for rental of equipment must be submitted to bids depends upon the status of the highway project on which the equipment is to be used. Accordingly, if the projects in question were required to be let under competitive bidding, as provided *277in appropriate legislation, the rental of equipment to be used on those projects, also, would be subject to competitive bidding. Otherwise, the provision of the law which requires contracts for construction to be let only after bidding thereon, as well as the limitations upon the doing of “force…