Rees v. Schmits

This is an appeal by the defendants from a decree of the circuit court granting the relief prayed by a bill in equity, which charges, in substance, that the city of Quincy, pursuant to an ordinance theretofore adopted, let to the complainants, as lowest bidders, contracts for the construction of a certain sewer; that said sewer was constructed by the complainants in substantial compliance with the ordinance and contracts ; that on June 1, 1910, there was a balance due complainants on the contract price in excess of $17,000 which remained due and unpaid; that on that day the defendants to the…