Board of Commissioners v. Shrader

The trustees of the town of Hartford City-made an order for the improvement of the streets around the public square in that town; after advertising, the work was let to Shrader; the sum of fifty dollars and eighty cents being due him as an estimate for work done, he presented his claim therefor to the Board of Commissioners, which being disallowed, he appealed to the circuit court, where his claim was allowed and judgment therefor rendered, from which judgment the commissioners appealed to this court.

Several errors are assigned, but the third and fourth cover all the questions discussed in…