Vito v. Town of Simsbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover an alleged balance due for work and labor and materials furnished in building a highway retaining-wall, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Windham County, Gager, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $2,103, and appeal by the defendant. No error.
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Action to recover an alleged balance due for work and labor and materials furnished in building a highway retaining-wall, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Windham County, Gager, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $2,103, and appeal by the defendant. No error. The defendant town voted to expend certain moneys for the betterment of its roads, in accordance with chapter 264 of the Public Acts of 1907 as amended by chapter 135 of the Public Acts of 1909. Pursuant to said vote the selectmen orally applied to the highway commissioner for the improvement of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The specifications provided in detail for the construction of a macadam road which was to be paid for, as the work progressed, by the highway commissioner. It does not appear whether this part of the work has been paid for solely by the State as a trunk line, or whether the town is liable for its proportion of the same. The only matter with which this action is concerned is whether the defendant town is liable to pay the balance due on account of the retaining-wall, which is separately specified for in detail, and which, according to the specifications and the contract, is “to be paid for…
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