Krasin v. Village of Almond

The action is to recover the amount of a check for $2,000 cashed by the defendant village, which the plaintiff had deposited as security for the fulfilment of his bid for public works. Upon trial to the court without a jury the court found for the plaintiff and judgment went accordingly.

The village claims right to the check under sec. 66.29, Stats. There is no doubt, as the court found, that there was an error of $6,000 in the plaintiff’s bid, which arose from the plaintiff’s misreading an adding-machine slip recording a total wherein a faint figure “6” in the thousand column of the total was…