O. J. STANTON & CO. v. MISS. STATE HWY. COM'N

No. 50821.

370 So.2d 909 (1979)

O.J. STANTON AND COMPANY, INC. v. MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied May 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Young, Scanlon & Sessums, Pat H. Scanlon, Jackson, Harry L. Griffin, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Reynolds & Mockbee, David L. Reynolds, Jackson, for appellant.

Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Rhesa H. Barksdale, Stephen W. Rosenblatt, Lawrence J. Franck, Frank E. Shanahan, Jr., Jackson, for appellee.

Before SMITH, SUGG and COFER, JJ.


COFER, Justice, for the Court:

Appellant, O.J. Stanton and Company, Incorporated (Stanton), appealed this cause from an adverse decision of the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County. Appellee, Mississippi State Highway Commission (Commission), defendant in the lower court, took a cross appeal from a measure of relief decreed in favor of Stanton.

In the latter 1960's Stanton, a substantial road construction contractor, contracted with...

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