Hevelone v. City of Beatrice

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court for Gage county sustaining a general demurrer to appellant’s petition, and thereafter dismissing the same.

The proceedings presented for review challenge the validity of the contract entered into between the city of Beatrice and the Layne-Western Company, hereinafter called the construction company. By the terms of this agreement the construction company obligated itself to supplement an indefinite and an insufficient supply of good water obtainable through the municipal waterworks by the construction of certain wells, pumps, pipe lines,…