Laub v. Meyer, Inc.

GIVENS, Justice.

The office manager of the catalog order office of Montgomery Ward & Company in Burley, called for, on maintenance painting specifications, local bids and received a responsive painting proposal from respondent, which bid was rejected and a bid of appellant Meyer, Incorporated, or Meyer & Company, sometimes known as Meyer & Turner, painting contractors of Chicago, was accepted.

Thereafter, Meyer, Incorporated, contacted respondent by letter and telephone and engaged him to do the work on the basis of $2.15 per hour for his time, his labor costs, overhead, and such profit as…