C. C. Moore Const. Co. v. Hayes

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

In October, 1938, C. C. Moore Construction Company, Inc., a Florida corporation, entered into contract with the State Highway Commission of Mississippi for the construction of 9.788 miles of road in Marion County, Mississippi. A new road was to be built between Prentiss and Columbia, Mississippi, and the section to be built by Moore was to extend north from Hawkins Avenue in the City of Columbia to the county line, and from that point another contractor was to build the road to Prentiss, the county seat of Jefferson Davis County. Moore’s contract provided among other…