Southern Surety Co. v. Lafferty

On the 26th day of May, 1926, R. E. King entered into a written contract with Nacog-doches county, valid in law, under authority of Commissioners’ Court of Madison County v. Wallace, 118 Tex. 279, 15 S.W.(2d) 535, Cherokee County v. Odom, 118 Tex. 288, 15 S. W.(2d) 538, to install for Nacogdoches county a “block book system”; that is, an abstract of property assessed for taxes and also of property unrendered and .where the owners are unknown, and maps and plats of said property. For this work Nacogdoches county was to pay King $35,000 in warrants of $500 each, to be issued to him as follows:…