Harder v. Board of Commissioners

Bicknell, C. C.

The appellant filed a claim against the appellees for $600, as the profits which would have accrued' to him on a contract with them for work to be done on the court-house, which contract, as he alleged, the appellees had wrongfully prevented him from completing.

It appeared that the appellant was paid for all the work he did up to the 16th of December, 1882, and that then the appellees made an order revoking and cancelling the contract. They also allowed him $661.90, “balance in full of all demands against Marion county for repairing and painting in the-court-house per…