Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R. v. First National Bank of Vicksburg

Citations

• 119 Miss. 59
• 80 So. 382

Syllabus

<p>1. Contracts. Construction. Construction, as whole.</p> <p>. A contract must be construed as a whole and each of its separate provisions should be considered and all of the provisions if possible, harmonized.</p> <p>2. Contracts. Railroad Construction. Construction of contract. Where a contract for building a concrete culvert provided tor</p> <p>payment for concrete at a certain price per cubic yard, for placing re-enforcing bars, for excavation, and for sheeting and bracing at a certain price per thousand feet in “place complete,” the work was to be done on a unit basis, and plaintiff might recover under the last item for the value of form lumber used in laying the concrete.</p>