Kernin v. City of Coquille

The complaint avers that April 17, 1927, the common council of the defendant municipality directed the mayor and the city recorder to enter into a contract with the plaintiff, binding him to drill a well for the city; that June 6, 1927, the plaintiff and those two officials executed a contract wherein the plaintiff agreed to drill a well sufficient in capacity to furnish the city with 100,000 gallons of “pure, potable water” every twenty-four hours. The contract, a copy of which accompanies the complaint, requires that after the well had been completed to the satisfaction of the contractor…