“The construction contract provided for the retention by the District of ten per cent of the contract price until completion.”
How later courts described this case
- “The construction contract provided for the retention by the District of ten per cent of the contract price until completion.”
- defining "local government" to include a school district
- mandamus held to be the exclusive remedy for enforcing judgments against political subdivisions of the state
- school districts are state agencies created to administer public school system
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
DISSENTING OPINION
GRIFFIN and GREENHILL, Justices
(dissenting).
We respectfully dissent from the majority opinion in this case. We adopt the learned logical and well written opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals reported in 423 S.W.2d 93 as our dissent herein.