Commonwealth Ex Rel. v. Jones

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

This was a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the county controller to countersign a warrant for payment of work done on a county highway; a responsive answer was filed and at the trial the court directed a formal verdict for plaintiff, reserving certain questions of law on which judgment was entered for the defendant n. o. v., and the former has appealed.

The record discloses no error. In July, 1920, Cambria County duly awarded to the Met-Con Co., Inc., plain; tiff, a contract for the erection of twenty thousand feet of guard rail along the public county…