Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. v. Summit Hill School District

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

The Summit Hill Borough School District, desiring to erect a new school building, prepared plans and specifications and advertised for proposals to do the work. A number of bids were received by the board and opened August 5, 1925, and the contract awarded to Andrew Breslin for the sum of $129,792, whose bid was not the lowest, that of the Tamauqua Construction Company, a business competitor, being for $128,583, or $1,209 less than that of the person to whom the contract was awarded. The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, a taxpayer within the district, filed its…