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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 961
    STATE ex STIVERS v. DAWLEY
    No. 20059.
    Supreme Court
    On motion to certify.
    Dock. Aug. 14, 1926;
    4 Abs. 557.
    969. PUBLIC CONTRACTS — Where additional work is to be done which cannot be determined until completed, can commissioner let contract for same without publication of certificate of funds available?
    Attorneys — E. B. Stivers and Fite & Fite for State ex; Young & Barnum, and Bagby & Bagby for Dawley; all of Georgetown.
   Stivers contends in- the Supreme Court that where a contract for highway improvement provides for alterations during the progress of the work, where the nature of the work required cannot be previously determined, and such alterations or additional work is to be done by directions of county commissioners, and they make a private contract with contractor for such additional work, they cannot do so without publication or certification of funds available.