Crowell v. Jaqua

Justice Gr. Crowell and Jason Heston, contractors, doing business under the name and style of Crowell & Heston, and the appellants in this proceeding, on the 30th day of May, 1885, entered into a contract in writing to make certain improvements in Beech alley, one of the alleys of the city of Portland, in this State, in pursuance of an ordinance which had been adopted by the common council of that city on the 9th day of the same month. On the 14th day of the succeeding month of September, the city engineer reported to the common council that the said Crowell & Heston had completed the…