Haskins & Sells v. Oklahoma City
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Oklahoma County; George W. Clark, Judge. Action by Haskins & Sells against Oklahoma City to recover $13,211.28 for auditing the city’s books and accounts. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
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Error from District Court, Oklahoma County; George W. Clark, Judge. Action by Haskins & Sells against Oklahoma City to recover $13,211.28 for auditing the city’s books and accounts. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. Plaintiff began this action February 14, 1905,-to recover the sum of $13,211.28, alleged to be due plaintiff from defendant for services which consisted in auditing the city’s books and accounts for a period of six years prior to June 12, 1903, and installing a new system of auditing the city’s books and keeping the accounts. Plaintiff is a corporation, organized…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
HARRISON, C.
(after stating the facts as above). Plaintiff in error, in its brief, contends for each assignment, but bases its argument upon two propositions, in doing which it covers and discusses all the errors assigned. The two propositions thus argued and relied upon are as follows:
“First. A contract which, at the time it is entered into, creates no indebtedness, but is such as may, at some future period, create an indebtedness, provided the contracting party performs the agreement out of which the debt may arise, does not come within the inhibition of section 478, Wilson’s…
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