Arensmeyer, Warnock, Zarndt, Inc. v. Wray

The contract involved on this application should be awarded to Arensmeyer, Warnock, Zarndt, Inc., under the second bidding. In advertising for bids the board was laboring under two misapprehensions. In its first advertisement it assumed that it had the right by a provision in the notice to award the contract to any bidder according to its judgment. This provision was omitted from the notice for bids upon readvertisement but the second notice contains a provision that the board reserves the right in its discretion to reject all bids as the interest of the city may appear. The board is not at…