White v. City of New Orleans

Plaintiff contracted with the defendant to make brick sidewalks, faced with curbstones and wooden- gutters, in a certain district of the city, for the price of one dollar and fifty cents the running foot.

The following are extracts from the contract:

“ Hewed and dressed curbstones shall line the sidewalks, of North River blue stones, level, dressed on the top. to answer the slope of the sides, from three to six feet long, and 18 to 20 inches deep. They must be well set in good joints, and in a workmanlike manner, and to end with apertures, where desired, for draining lots, by means of gutters…