Blassingame v. City of Laurens
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Laurens, May, 1907. Action by J. T. Blassingame against the city of Laurens and its city council From judgment for plaintiff defendants appeal. cite: Mistake being pleaded, conversation preceding bid should have been admitted: 21 E«cy., 1097; 1 Green. Bv., 284; 57 S. C., 60. Contract in writing and bond should have been executed to make out the contract: 1 Dill., Secs. 259-270 ; 7 Eney., 140; 87 U. S., 422; 20 Eing.
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Before Watts, J., Laurens, May, 1907. Action by J. T. Blassingame against the city of Laurens and its city council From judgment for plaintiff defendants appeal. cite: Mistake being pleaded, conversation preceding bid should have been admitted: 21 E«cy., 1097; 1 Green. Bv., 284; 57 S. C., 60. Contract in writing and bond should have been executed to make out the contract: 1 Dill., Secs. 259-270 ; 7 Eney., 140; 87 U. S., 422; 20 Eing. R., 201. It is error to charge inconsistent propositions: 2 Tholmp. on. Trials, Sec. 2326; 11 Bncy., 145, 148. What must concur to make a contract? 7 Ency., 113;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered! by
Mr. Justice Woods.
The city council of Laurens, in the Sipring of 1904, received bids for the repair and improvement of certain streets of the city. The plaintiff alleges in hiis complaint the bid submitted by him was accepted; that on the faith! of the contract so made, he began the work contracted for, but, 'by the peremptory order of the city council, enforced by his arrest, he was 'compelled to stop.; and that by this breach of the contract on the part of the defendant, he was damaged five thousand, two¡ hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixteen…
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