Court Opinion

ID: 9826004
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Date Created: 2023-09-01 15:11:21.149723+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:46.428668
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The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Cothran.
Action to recover $1,000, with interest from June 30, 1919, that being the amount of a certified check delivered by the plaintiff as a bidder upon certain bridge work to be let by the defendants, who were constituted a commission to build a bridge over Broad river by Act (30 Stat. 648).
In response to an advertisement calling for bids, the plaintiff submitted the bid on June 30, 1919, accompanying it with the certified check payable to the defendants. The plaintiff’s contention is that without 'fault upon its part the bid submitted was not accepted, no contract was entered into, and that it is entitled to recover the value of said check which the defendants have appropriated to their own use.
The defendants contend that the plaintiff’s bid was accepted and the contract duly awarded to the plaintiff; that it' has refused to comply therewith; and that as a consequence the deposit has been forfeited to the defendants. They also set up a counterclaim for $4,623.01, loss sustained in the breach of the contract by the plaintiff.
*21At the close of all the testimony the Circuit Judge directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. The defendants have appealed.
It will serve no useful purpose to review the very complicated facts in this case. It is sufficient to say that, after a careful consideration of them, we are of the opinion that there was sufficient evidence tending to show an acceptance of the plaintiff’s bid by the defendants ánd an unjustified withdrawal of it by the plaintiff, to require a submission of the case to the jury, and that there was error in the direction of a verdict.
The judgment of this Court is that the judgment of the Circuit Court be reversed, and that the case be remanded to that Court for a new trial.
Mr. Chiee Justice Gary and Mr. Justice Watts concur.