Grant Construction Co. v. Burns

SMITH, Chief Justice.

Respondents (plaintiffs) Grant Construction Company, a Utah corporation authorized to do business in Idaho, and Grant Company, a co-partnership, both engaging in highway construction work, seek by this action to recover damages for an alleged breach by appellants (defendants) Idaho Board of Highway Directors, of a highway construction contract. The contract involves a construction project on a portion of a highway in Bonner County, Idaho.

May 9, 1961, respondents submitted a bid for constructing a roadbed, drainage structures, and plantmix bituminous surface on 1.727 miles…