Davies v. City of East Saginaw

The contention in this case arises out of a contract entered into between plaintiff and defendant for grading and paving a portion of a 'street. The contract* by express reference and terms, makes the specifications, the notice to paving contractors, and proposals made by plaintiff, a part of the contract. These specifications bear upon their face evidence of having been 'drawn by a person unfamiliar with the terms he employed; or, if not unfamiliar, then he was guilty of a gross misuse of the English language to express the undertakings required of a contractor.

The specifications, after a…