Charles Deleuw & Co. v. City of Charleston

This was a suit brought by Charles Deleuw and Company, a corporation, the plaintiff: appellee, against the city of Charleston, a municipal corporation, the defendant appellant, to recover for services rendered by the appellee, as civil engineers, in mailing surveys, plans and specifications, etc., for a proposed improved waterworks system owned by the appellant.

The case was tried by the court without a jury upon the pleadings, stipulations and an agreed statement of facts, which set forth substantially the following: That the defendant appellant is a municipal corporation organized and…