State ex rel. Union Fuel Co. v. City of Lincoln

Kirkpatrick, C.

This is an application for a writ of mandamus addressed to the district court for Lancaster county by relator, the Union Fuel Company, seeking to compel the city council of the city of Lincoln to award it a contract to furnish for the use of the city 3,500 tons of Rich Hill mixture nut coal, or so much thereof as might be needed at $2.10 per ton. The trial court denied relator’s application.

The basis of relator’s contention is that it was the lowest and best bidder, and that, this fact being established, it was mandatory upon the city council, under the statute, to award, it…