Jumonville v. Police Jury of Tangipahoa Parish

On March 11, 1924, the ■ Police. Jury of Tangipahoa Parish appointed James Jumonville, R. D. Fellows and D. T. Evans, the Supervising Board of Consolidated Road District A.

This Board recommended to the Police Jury that the contract for building and gravelling a road in the district be awarded to one S. A. Gano and the Police Jury acting on their recommendation awarded the contract accordingly. It afterwards turned out that Standard Highway Company, Inc., had sent in to the supervisors a bid for the same work in amount some $17,000.00 less than the amount for which the work had been awarded to…