Highway Commissioners v. Van Dusan

Yan Dusan sued on the common counts for services in making a sewer. A written agreement had been signed and he claimed for an unpaid portion of the agreed price and for some items supposed to be outside of the express terms, but asserted to be justly chargeable. It appears that recovery was opposed on several grounds, but vainly. The main one seems to have been that the improvement as contracted for and carried out was not in a part of the township open to the exercise of such authority or where such things could be done at township cost, but was upon territory which in fact was under…