Sikes v. General Publishing Co.

George Rose Smith, Justice.

For the purpose of this opinion we have consolidated these two appeals, one from the Pulaski Circuit Court and the other from the Ouachita Circuit Court.

The cases involve four state printing contracts that were at first awarded by the State Printing Board to the Hurley Company, as the lowest bidder. Within a few days after the execution of the original contracts the Board’s attention was called to the fact that the Hurley Company had not filed performance bonds within the time allowed by the Board’s regulations (7 days as to one contract, 10 days as to the other…