District of Columbia v. Bailey
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. On July 30, 1879, a contract for resurfacing with asphaltum certain streets in the- city of Washington was awarded to The Bailey-French Paving Company. The agreement was embodied in a writing signed on the one part by Davis W. Bailey as general agent of the company just named, and on the other part signed and sealed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. On July 30, 1879, a contract for resurfacing with asphaltum certain streets in the- city of Washington was awarded to The Bailey-French Paving Company. The agreement was embodied in a writing signed on the one part by Davis W. Bailey as general agent of the company just named, and on the other part signed and sealed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. The price specified for the work aggregated a little less than $41,000. On February 12, 1880, when about three fourths of the work to be done under this contract had been…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The decision of this controversy- involves two propositions. Did the Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the power to agree to submit the claim in issue to the award of an arbitrator? And if they did have the power, did they lawfully exercise it? To answer either of these questions it.becomes essential to ascertain whether an agreement to submit to • arbitration involves the power to contract. Both of the matters above stated depend upon, this lást inquiry, because both the claim that the District of Columbia did not in valid form exercise the power to submit to arbitration, and.…
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