Pyle v. Kernan

In July, 1929, the state highway commission called for bids on a contract to resurface 12 miles of the Roosevelt coast highway between Riverton and Bandon, in Coos county, and to furnish 15,400 yards of broken stone for highway construction purposes. The specifications called for Tupper rock, that is, rock to be obtained from a certain quarry located near Ban-don. The commission considered the bids excessive and therefore rejected them. The following month a second call for bids was made. Pursuant to this call the following bids were submitted: Guy Pyle and the Newport Construction Co.,…