State Ex Rel. Piel v. Arkansas Construction Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellees on the pleadings, upon appellant’s refusal to reply to appellees’ answers. The court overruled appellant’s demurrers to the two paragraphs of answer of each appellee to appellant’s complaint, and such action of the court is assigned as error.

The suit was brought in the name of the State on relation of a taxpayer on appellees’ bond for breach of a road-improvement contract. It is alleged in the complaint that appellee, sometime in 1919, abandoned its contract entered into June 14, 1916, with the Board of Commissioners of Knox County for…