State v. Smith

This is a proceeding brought by the state of Louisiana, the Louisiana highway commission, and the police jury of the parish of Calcasieu, to recover judgment against W. H. Smith, Jr., and his surety, the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, in the sum' of $58,582.26, with legal interest thereon from, judicial demand, and 10 per cent, attorney’s fees, as damages for their failure to complete, according to contract, the construction of an embankment for a public highway, in the parish of Calcasieu, through the Sabine swamp, to a bridge crossing the Sabine river. The basis of this demand…