Waller v. Pritchard

I. Tbe petition assails the validity of a certain paving contract entered into by the town of Garner with the defendant contractor- in March, 1920, for paving to be constructed upon the streets of such town. The contract was fully performed long before its validity was assailed. The ground of attack is that the legal effect of the contract was to create an indebtedness of the town which was in excess both of the constitutional and of the statutory limit of indebtedness; that the contract was, therefore, wholly voidthat, because such contract was wholly void, all proceedings thereunder were…