Pearlman v. Pittsburgh

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

The defendant City of Pittsburgh supplies approximately one hundred and twenty-five thousand customers with city water and is gradually changing from a flat rate to a meter system. In the furtherance of this plan the city, in the spring of 1930, enacted an ordinance making, inter alia, an appropriation, directing the proper authorities to advertise for sealed proposals “For the furnishing of 3,000, more or less, Water Me ters and Water Meter Parts, for the Burean of Water.” The information to prospective bidders included a proposed contract and specifications.…