Queen City Construction Co. v. City of Seattle

The city of Seattle having called for bids for the construction of the Henderson street trunk sewer, unit No. 9, as authorized by ordinance No. 64831, the plaintiff, Queen City Construction Company, a corporation, submitted its bid, in accordance with the city’s prepared proposals, subdivided into thirty-one distinct items, comprising estimated quantities, for the purpose of comparing bids, only. The specifications called for a sixty-inch monolithic reinforced concrete sewer 6,629 feet in length. Besides resting upon solid earth, the monolithic sewer was to rest upon curved concrete saddles,…