Eads v. City of Carondelet
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. . I. Tke second section of defendant’s ordinance did not bave tbe effect to withdraw the positive acceptance made in the first section, or in the least to modify it. The city council of Carondelet no where intimate that they take back their acceptance. On the contrary, they direct their agent to enter into a written agreement embracing the terms of Eads’s proposition. They tell him to close the contract between said city and Eads.
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Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. . I. Tke second section of defendant’s ordinance did not bave tbe effect to withdraw the positive acceptance made in the first section, or in the least to modify it. The city council of Carondelet no where intimate that they take back their acceptance. On the contrary, they direct their agent to enter into a written agreement embracing the terms of Eads’s proposition. They tell him to close the contract between said city and Eads. The ordinance embraces ^very element of a contract agreed on and in writing. The real expressed intention is that the…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
This case is brought before us on a writ of error, prosecuted from a decision of the court below, sustaining a demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition. The plaintiff alleges in his petition that on the 23 d day of May, 1862, he had entered into a contract with the government of the United States to build and construct six gunboats; that in the construction of the boats a large number of persons would necessarily have to be employed, and a large quantity of money disbursed; that defendant was anxious to have the boats built within its corporate limits ; and that one William Taussig, on behalf of…
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