Alliance Steel, Inc. v. Piercy

The trial judge made the following findings of fact, which warrant being quoted in extenso:

"First, on August 12th of 1991[,] a contract was entered into between the property owner, Defendant Curtis Piercy, with the contractor for this project, Pre-Engineered Steel, for a $39,000 job that the owner wanted Pre-Engineered Steel to complete for it. A few days later, on August 27th of 1991, the contractor, PreEngineered Steel[,] entered into a contract with the Plaintiff [Alliance Steel] as a subcontractor to supply material for this project, and the amount for the material that was to be paid was…