Harley v. Sanitary District
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Bill for injunction and relief. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Abner Smith, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
The appellee is a public corporation engaged by the authority of the State in opening a channel through which a portion of the water of Lake Michigan will be diverted from the Gulf of the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico.
The appellant made with the appellee a contract by which the appellant undertook to do a portion of the work, and gave a bond with security in the sum of $100,000, conditioned for the performance of the contract on his part.
The contract provided in effect that the appellee might take the work from the appellant upon the happening of contingencies which the appellee claimed…
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