Attala County v. Mississippi Tractor & Equipment Co.

This appeal is from a judgment for the price of articles the appellee claims to have sold the appellant for the repair of, and use in connection with, road machinery. The account sued on runs over a period of several months, and the various articles are said by the appellee to have been, and we will assume were, purchased by or with the approval of individual members of the board of supervisors.

The statutes (Code 1930; sec. 6064) relied on by the appellee as authorizing the purchases are those which empower members of the board of supervisors to make emergency contracts and expenditures.

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