Board of Levee Com'rs of Orleans Levee Dist. v. Hulse

The defendant Hulse contracted to build for the plaintiff a levee of approximately 170,000 cubic yards at 26 cents per cubic yard, and the other defendant became the surety on his bond under Act 224 of 1918.

The contract provided that the contractor should take the earth for the building of the levee exclusively from the inside (river side) of the proposed levee. It also provided that the contractor should be required to build at the same compensation and under the same conditions such run-rounds or loops, opposite and in front of the proposed levee, as plaintiff should deem necessary, to wit,…