Quigley v. Board of Commissioners
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Sumner District Court. Action brought by Quigley & Leonard, publishers of the Sumner County Democrat, against the Board of Comm’rs of Sumner Co., upon an account in the sum of $1,363 for printing done for said county for the year ending July 3, 1879. Trial by the court, at the November Term, 1879, when the board, defendant, admitted that the printing and work mentioned in plaintiffs’ itemized bills had been by them done as set forth in their said bills, and that…
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Error from, Sumner District Court. Action brought by Quigley & Leonard, publishers of the Sumner County Democrat, against the Board of Comm’rs of Sumner Co., upon an account in the sum of $1,363 for printing done for said county for the year ending July 3, 1879. Trial by the court, at the November Term, 1879, when the board, defendant, admitted that the printing and work mentioned in plaintiffs’ itemized bills had been by them done as set forth in their said bills, and that the several amounts charged therein are just and reasonable and in conformity with the statutes of the state regulating…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The plaintiffs in erroi’, plaintiffs below, entered into a contract with the defendant to do all the county printing at rates less than the fees allowed by law. Having done the work, they presented their bill for the same at legal rates. The board of commissioners declining to allow anything in excess of the contract price, they appealed to the district court, which sustained the action of the commissioners. They now bring the question to this court.
Does the contract price control, or may they, having obtained the work by means of the…
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- Johnson v. DumondSupreme Court of Kansas · 1930
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