Litchfield v. City of Bridgeport

The first three questions propounded for the advice of this court depend fundamentally upon the right of the city engineer to designate in the specifications for road surfacing a patented article. The first and second questions involve plaintiff’s claim that the specifications issued necessarily resulted in frustrating the clearly expressed intent of the Act that the contracts should be let to- the lowest responsible bidders. The third question involves the right generally to specify a patented article in connection with the competitive bidding. As a preliminary question plaintiff strongly…