Andrews v. Estes
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Assumpsit upon the following agreement, viz: “We the undersigned committee for the first school district, south side in Bethel, promise in behalf of said district, to pay William Andrews one hundred and five dollars and seventy-five cents, by the first day of November next, providing said Andrews shall complete a school-house in said district to the acceptance of a committee and time specified in a bond which he has given, bearing even date with this.
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Assumpsit upon the following agreement, viz: “We the undersigned committee for the first school district, south side in Bethel, promise in behalf of said district, to pay William Andrews one hundred and five dollars and seventy-five cents, by the first day of November next, providing said Andrews shall complete a school-house in said district to the acceptance of a committee and time specified in a bond which he has given, bearing even date with this. Said Andrews is to have the old school-iiouse in said district. Richard Estes, ) Stephen G. Stephens, > Committee. Phineas Frost. ) November…
1Opinion of the Court
Weston J.
delivered the opinion of the Court, at the ensuing October term, in Penobscot.
School districts are quasi corporations for certain purposes; and among others, for the building and repair of school-houses. Rev. laws, ch. 117, sec. 8. The plaintiff claims of the defendants compensation for building a school-house, in the first school district, south side in Bethel, in virtue of a contract, dated Nov. twenty-eighth, 1831; and the question is, whether they are thereby personally bound. They offered to prove their authority, to enter into and make the contract in behalf of the district,…
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