Town of Woodville v. Jenks

Citations

• 104 Miss. 184
• 61 So. 172

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipal Corporation. Engineer. Contracts. Compensation.</p> <p>Where an engineer agreed with the town to supervise the construction of its waterworks system, for the compensation of five per cent, on the construction cost of the plant, and guaranteed that a certain character of pump would do the desired work, he is entitled to his compensation where the failure of the pump to do the work was caused by the fault of the city, even though the town had removed such pump and installed another without his assistance.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>In such ease the supervising engineer is not entitled to compensation for extra services, in the absence of a contract with or an order of the board of aldermen of the town providing for the same.</p>