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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF OPELOUSAS, LA. v. PITTMAN CONST. CO.

No. 17584.

264 F.2d 695 (1959)

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF The CITY OF OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA, Appellant, v. PITTMAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Inc., Appellee. and PITTMAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Inc., Appellant, v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF The CITY OF OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA and George G. Marquette, Jr., d/b/a Marco Construction Company, Intervenor, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 10, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe J. Tritico, Warren E. Hood, Lake Charles, La., for defendant-appellant.

Gerald J. Gallinghouse, New Orleans, La., R. Emmett Kerrigan, Frank J. Peragine, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

Pittman Construction Company, Inc., the lowest bidder1 on a contract for the construction of a housing project at Opelousas, Louisiana,2 sued to annul the contract awarded the next low bidder, Marco Construction Company. The question for decision is whether the Housing Authority of the City of Opelousas, through its Board of Commissioners, exercised...

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