Saleno v. City of Neosho
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Barton Circuit Court. — Hon. D. P. Steatton, Judge. (1) A contract at the common law is an agreement, for a sufficient consideration to do, or not to do, some-particular thing. 1 Parsons on Contracts, sec. 6. The contract is said to be complete when the minds of the-contracting parties meet; when a. proposition is made-by one and accepted by the other of the contracting-parties. Wilson v. Board, 63 Mo. 137; Langstrauss v. Ins.
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Appeal from Barton Circuit Court. — Hon. D. P. Steatton, Judge. (1) A contract at the common law is an agreement, for a sufficient consideration to do, or not to do, some-particular thing. 1 Parsons on Contracts, sec. 6. The contract is said to be complete when the minds of the-contracting parties meet; when a. proposition is made-by one and accepted by the other of the contracting-parties. Wilson v. Board, 63 Mo. 137; Langstrauss v. Ins. Co., 48 Mo. 201. (2) This contract does not fall' within the purview of section 3157, in relation to county-contracts, but comes within the rule that, where…
1Opinion of the CourtBuegess, J.
This is an action upon a contract alleged to have been entered into between plaintiff and defendant, under which plaintiff erected for defendant, a city of the fourth class, a system of waterworks, and *633defendant granted to plaintiff a waterworks franchise for a term of twenty years, and agreed to pay plaintiff for the use of water for city and other purposes, $2,000 a year for the use of fifty water hydrants for a term of twenty years, and $30 per year for each additional hydrant which the city, by its board of aldermen, might ■order for the use and benefit of the city. The action is for…
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