Burns v. City of Fairmont

The plaintiff, Joseph Burns, brought this action to recover the sum of $656, claimed as a balance due him from the city of Fairmont on the following contract:

“Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 12, 1887.

“ To the Mon. Mayor and City Council of Fairmont, Neb.: Gentlemen — I herewith hand you a proposal to furnish your city a water supply of (6400) sixty-four hundred gallons or (200) two hundred barrels of water per hour for (24) twenty-four consecutive hours’ pumping, and I guarantee that said supply shall hold good for (6) six days, commencing my work in the bottom of your well now dug and walled up, and…