Wilder v. Nolte

On October 15, 1935, Wilder & Mont-fort, a partnership composed of C. V. Wilder and Louis Montfort, contractors, made a bid on a public road job involving the construction of a concrete overcrossing designed to carry state road No. 15 across the tracks of the Great Northern Railway Company near Index. Upon the opening of the bids, their bid of $31,416 proved to have been the lowest submitted, and they were awarded the contract designated as “Washington State Highway Contract No. 2059.” Within a few days after the opening of the bids, the following instruments were executed by Wilder &…