North Pacific Lumbering & Manufacturing Co. v. East Portland

The respondent is a private corporation, and the appellant a municipal corporation. The former began an action in the lower court against the latter, to recover the contract price for building a certain bridge, or elevated roadway, in said city. The city in the outset contracted with one J. E. Bennett to do the work, and the respondent alleged in its complaint that Bennett, after furnishing materials and performing labor, assigned his claim to the respondent; that the appellant, the city, recognized the respondeút as a party to the contract in the place of Bennett, and that thereafter the…