Bowen v. City of Minneapolis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Hennepin county, to recover $747.50, being interest at 7 per cent, per annum from August 10,1888, on a claim of $11,325.50, for work, done by plaintiff for defendant in grading streets, the principal having been paid by defendant under authority of Sp. Laws 1889, c. 563, considered in the opinion. The action was tried by Young and Hooker, JJ., (a jury-being waived,) and judgment was ordered for plaintiff for the amount of his claim.
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Action brought in the district court for Hennepin county, to recover $747.50, being interest at 7 per cent, per annum from August 10,1888, on a claim of $11,325.50, for work, done by plaintiff for defendant in grading streets, the principal having been paid by defendant under authority of Sp. Laws 1889, c. 563, considered in the opinion. The action was tried by Young and Hooker, JJ., (a jury-being waived,) and judgment was ordered for plaintiff for the amount of his claim. A motion for a new trial was, by stipulation, heard by Lochren, J., and was denied, and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
We assume, in the determination of this case, that plaintiff, respondent, because of his failure to regularly enter into a contract with the defendant city, was remediless until the enactment of Sp. Laws 1889, e. 563, and place an affirmance of the order ap*116pealed from upon what we regard as the proper construction of that statute. It was entitled “An act legalizing certain claims against the city of Minneapolis, and authorizing the payment of the same." In the first section is found a preamble wherein it is recited that in the year 1887 this plaintiff and other persons rendered services for…
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