Williams v. Road Dist. No. 11 of Parish of Winn

Plaintiff, under contract with road district No. 11 of the parish of Winn, completed the road from Sikes to Chester within said district. On the completion of the road, the parish engineer reported 83,005.2 cubic yards of dirt moved by plaintiff, who refused to accept this estimate. Plaintiff then brought the present suit against the road district to recover for 108,410.8 cubic yards, making a difference of 25,405.6 cubic yards, which, at the contract price of 25 cents per yard, amounts to the sum of $6,351.40.

Alleging that the fund in the treasury of road district No. 11 was not more than…