Lakeside Bridge & Steel Co. v. Duvall

The appellant, Lakeside Bridge & Steel Company, was engaged in constructing a nine-mile section of Highway No. 105 north from Atkins, and this suit was brought against it by the appellee, Duvall, for damages for alleged breach of contract, and a verdict was rendered in his favor for the sum of $500. The evidence was to the effect that he had made an oral contract with one B-ay Hundley, who he alleged to be plaintiff’s superintendent, by which he was given the contract to haul sand, rock, cement, and other materials to be used in the construction of the road from Atkins to station No. 512, a…