STATE HIGHWAY COM'N v. PATTERSON ENTERPRISES LTD.

No. 89-CA-408.

627 So.2d 261 (1993)

MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. PATTERSON ENTERPRISES LTD., Michael R. Smith and Amco Construction Company, Inc.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Alan M. Purdie, Asst. Atty. Gen., James W. Nobles, Jr., Jackson, for appellant.

Pat H. Scanlon, and E. Stephen Williams, Young Scanlon & Sessums, Jackson, for appellee.

Luther S. Ott, Ott Purdy & Scott, Jackson, for amicus curiae.

EN BANC.


BANKS, Justice, for the Court:

I

This is an appeal from the Hinds County Circuit Court of a $1,177,392.00 jury award against appellant, the Mississippi State Highway Commission, for breach of contract. The case presents the question of whether the terms of a prime contract between the highway commission and a contractor were incorporated into the terms of a subsequent contract between the contractor and Patterson, a subcontractor. Finding the terms were...

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