Gardiner v. Street Commissioners

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash an assessment of betterments by the board of street commissioners, for the widening, location and construction of Charlestown Street in Boston. The only grounds on which the petitioners now contend that the assessment should be quashed are that the invitations for the proposals to do the work contain a statement that “ the proposal of a bidder who will pay the full trade union' scale of wages to his employees may be accepted in preference to a bidder who will pay a lower scale of wages,” and that the contract for the construction of the…