MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COM. v. DIXIE CONTRACTORS, INC.

No. 51465.

375 So.2d 1202 (1979)

MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. DIXIE CONTRACTORS, INC.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Frank E. Shanahan, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Shell, Buford, Bufkin, Callicutt & Perry, K. Hayes Callicutt, Jackson, for appellant.

Cox & Dunn, Vardaman S. Dunn, Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, SUGG and WALKER, JJ.


PATTERSON, Chief Justice, for the Court:

Dixie Contractors, Inc. brought suit in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County for additional compensation allegedly owing by the highway commission on a contract known as Federal Aid Project # I-10-1(15)16. The case went to trial at the April 1976 term of court, and on December 29, 1978, the chancellor rendered judgment against the highway commission in the sum of $359,763.96, plus interest at the...

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