Bowler v. Metropolitan Sanitary District

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

In November 1962, the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago advertised for bids for the construction of a sewer known as Calumet Intercepting Sewer, Contract 11-8. The plaintiffs, Thomas J. Bowler and John P. Bowler, doing business under the name of Brighton Building and Maintenance Company, submitted a bid in December 1962. They were successful and the contract was awarded to them in February 1963. In May 1963, the City of Chicago passed an ordinance granting an easement to the project which provided that the City…