City Center Bank v. City of Rosedale

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The plaintiff sued to recover the sum of $1,500 and interest for the purchase price of a sewer-cleaning machine sold and delivered to the city of Rosedale. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of the city, from which the plaintiff appeals.

The petition alleged that in 1914, the city of Rosedale by its mayor and pursuant to a resolution of its council accepted a written proposition from the Henry Sieben Sewer Cleaning Company for the sale to the city of a sewer-cleaning machine at the agreed price of $1,500; that the city accepted the…