Town of Senatobia v. Ryan

Citations

• 106 Miss. 413
• 63 So. 680

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipal Cokpoeations. Suit. Interest on verdict.</p> <p>Where Ryan contracted with a town hoard to do certain work- and after completing a part of the job, abandoned it and gave an order on the town to a third party for the-work-done by him, and the town board refused to accept the order but' required the sureties on Ryan’s bond to enter into an agreement that such third party might go ahead and complete Ryan’s contract and that the bond signed by them as Ryan’s sureties would not be vitiated by this arrangement, and such third party completed the job, a suit for the price in the name of Ryan for the use of such third party against the town was properly brought.</p> <p>2. Interest. Interest on verdict.</p> <p>Where the verdict of the jury was “we the jury, find for the plaintiff in the sum of one thousand seven hundred five dollars with legal interest to date,” and in entering the judgment the court allowed six per cent interest from the date the suit was filed, of this the defendant could not complain.</p>