Stilson v. Board of Commissioners

The assignments of error present but one question, and that is, whether the contract sued upon is void by reason of being against public policy.

The material facts set forth in the pleadings and proVed upon the trial are, that the county commissioners had commenced the erection of a new court-house- upon lots Nos. 27 and 28, in the town of Bedford, the site having been changed from the public square, where the old court-house stood, to said lots; that the commissioners had already purchased said lots for that purpose, had contracted for the building thereon of said new court-house, and that…