Opinion ID: 1495908
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Good Faith of Dispute.

Text: The issue as to the good faith of appellants was not before the court below and is not justified here by anything in the evidence or findings. The answer of appellee to the counterclaim contains no suggestion of this character, nor does either the report of the master, nor the decree, nor memorandum opinion of the court. Appellee contends that the master, in finding 15, determined this bad faith where he stated that the inclusion of the quantity of material to be sidecast without haul (caused by inclusion of materials for two road crossings) as made by appellants was improper. A reading of that finding as well as others related thereto makes it very clear that the master did not use improper in the sense of consciously wrongful but purely in the sense of erroneous.