Commonwealth ex rel. Snyder v. Mitchell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, Allegheny county: No. 192, of October and November Term 1876. This was an application by the Commonwealth, ex rel.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, Allegheny county: No. 192, of October and November Term 1876. This was an application by the Commonwealth, ex rel. N. Snyder, Frank Havelock, Michael Ryan and John A. Jacobs, partners, doing businéss under the firm name of N. Snyder & Co., for a writ of mandamus to compel the water committee of the councils of the city of Pittsburgh and the councils of said city to award to said N. Snyder & Co., the contract for manufacturing, delivering and completing the “ wrought-iron forcing mains” for the water-works of the city, the relators alleging that they…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
This is a petition by Nicholas Snyder et at, members of the firm of N. Snyder & Co., for a writ of mandamus against the Water-Committee of Councils of the city of Pittsburgh. The petition set forth, inter alia, that the committee, having in charge the erection of water-works for the aforesaid city, did, sometime during the year 1874, invite sealed proposals for the construction and delivery, in place of certain “wrought-iron forcing mains;” that the relators, “expert and responsible iron-workers,’’among others did deliver to the said commissioners, sealed proposals for the manufacture and…
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