Forbes v. City of Ashland

Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The city of Ashland, Ky., is one of the second class, and its legislative department enacted the necessary ordinances to improve certain designated streets in the city at the expense of the abutting property owners. Specifications for the work were prepared and advertisements for bids were made, all according to law. Among the bids submitted was one by the appellants M. I. Forbes, J. W. Bosley, and George Hunt, composing the partnership of Hunt-Forbes Construction Company, and which was ascertained by the city authorities to be the lowest and best…