Russellville Water & Light Co. v. Sauerman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pope Chancery Court; Jeremiah G Wallace, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. On November 14, .1908, the Russellville Water & Light Company entered into a contract with one Fred Wilson to build a dam across the Illinois river and .a. reservoir, in Pope County, Arkansas, for the purpose of furnishing power for a water and light plant in the city of Russellville.
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Appeal from Pope Chancery Court; Jeremiah G Wallace, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. On November 14, .1908, the Russellville Water & Light Company entered into a contract with one Fred Wilson to build a dam across the Illinois river and .a. reservoir, in Pope County, Arkansas, for the purpose of furnishing power for a water and light plant in the city of Russellville. The contract, among other things, provided that the dam was to be constructed for the sum of $34,700, 85 per cent of the value of the transportation, labor and material furnished during the period then ending, to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). In the cases of Russellville Water & Light Company v. Sauerman & Ball, D. C. Carpenter, J. M. Ball and T. C. Cole, numbered respectively 2617, 2619 and 2620, the appellees ask the court to affirm the judgments .for the reason that the contract, which is material to the determination of the issues involved, and which was in evidence below, is nowhere brought into this record.
There is an agreement of record here by the attorneys representing the respective parties in the above cases that the transcripts now on file here in each of the causes may be used as a…
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