School District v. Thomas

During the year 1891 the plaintiff in error, the school district of Beatrice, entered into a contract with one W. G. Smith to erect for it two schoolhouses, the amount to be paid therefor, as expressed in the contract, being the sum of $14,605. ' W. 0. Smith, at or about the same time, entered in a contract with the defendant in error by which the party last mentioned agreed to do all grading and excavating, also all stone and brick work necessary to be done in or about the erection of the two schoolhouses, and was to receive therefor the sum of $8,200. At sometime during the progress of the…