Koons v. Richardson

The corporate authorities of the City of Mt. Vernon had under consideration the malting of certain public improvements and on May 16, 1921, appellant submitted a communication in which he offered to act as engineer and to do all such work as is usually done by an engineer with reference to such work for three per cent of the total estimated cost. For the preliminary engineering work such as is required before the letting of contracts the charge was to he one-half of said amount; for taking full charge of the inspection work in addition to the other work the total charge for all services to be…