Baton Rouge Contracting Co., Inc. v. West Hatchie Drainage District of Tippah County, Mississippi

In this case the plaintiff-contractor sued to recover the value of certain alleged extra work performed pursuant to a contract for river channelization. In a detailed and well-reasoned opinion Judge Orma R. Smith denied the principal item of recovery by holding that the additional work was mere difficulty in performance which could have been foreseen before acceptance of the contract since defendants’ plans and specifications adequately revealed the type of soil conditions to be expected. The district court granted plaintiff’s claim for a sum over and above the price paid for the new spur…