GUSTAFSON v. RIGGS

1 CA-CIV 854.

10 Ariz. App. 74 (1969)

456 P.2d 92

B.L. GUSTAFSON, dba B.L. Gustafson Contractor, Appellant, v. L. Alton RIGGS, Barney W. Burns, and William Andrews, as members of and constituting the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, Arizona, a political subdivision; John A. Foote, Maricopa County Treasurer; and Lester E. Jackson, dba Lester E. Jackson Construction Co., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arizona.

June 3, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis Roca, Beauchamp & Linton, by John P. Frank, Peter D. Baird and Joseph E. McGarry, Phoenix, for appellant.

Robert K. Corbin, Maricopa County Atty., by Joseph A. Mayfield, Deputy County Atty., and Ellen Jane Rex Greer, Special Counsel, Phoenix, for appellees, Board of Supervisors and County Treasurer.

Skousen, McLaws & Skousen, by Richard E. Skousen, Mesa, for appellee, Lester E. Jackson.


MOLLOY, Judge.

This appeal requires an interpretation of a statute giving preference to certain contractors in bids on public work. The lower court held that both competing contractors, B.L. Gustafson and Lester E. Jackson, met the preference requirements of this statute and that therefore the award of the bid to the lowest bidder, Jackson, was proper.

The statutory language controlling this controversy is:

"B. In awarding the contract for work to...

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