Gregg v. Town of Bourbonnais

This case involves the question of the liability of a township to pay for engineering services furnished in the deepening and widening of a creek, and the construction of a swimming pool under two P. W. A. grants, covering a construction period of approximately three years, where the services were furnished without a contract authorized by a vote of the electors at a town meeting, the projects having been initiated by the township supervisor to furnish employment for the unemployed of the township, and sponsored by him. The cause is here on an appeal by the engineer from a judgment of the…