Dickerson v. City of Spokane

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Reavis, C. J.

The complaint states that respondent is a municipal corporation; that in January, 1895, one R. A. Jones was constructing a water works system for respondent, by virtue of a contract then subsisting between Jones and respondent, known as the “Waterworks Contract;” that respondent had agreed to pay Jones about the sum of $355,000 for such work, to he paid in half monthly installments during the progress of the work; that on the 27th day of January, 1895, Jones made his order in writing as follows:

“Spokane, Washington, January 27, 1895.

To the…