Keogh v. Mayor of Wilmington
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Injunction Bill.—This was a bill for an injunction to restrain the corporation of the City of Wilmington from awarding to any other person than the complainant, Martin Keogh, a contract for the macadamizing of Fourth street, and for an order that the contract be awarded to the complainant upon the terms of his bid for it made under certain proposals advertised by the Street Committee.
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Injunction Bill.—This was a bill for an injunction to restrain the corporation of the City of Wilmington from awarding to any other person than the complainant, Martin Keogh, a contract for the macadamizing of Fourth street, and for an order that the contract be awarded to the complainant upon the terms of his bid for it made under certain proposals advertised by the Street Committee. The material facts are these : The City Council, by a resolution adopted June 27, 1872, directed the Street Committee to advertise for proposals for paving Fourth street with macadamized pavement from Market…
1Opinion of the Court
The "Chancellor :—
It is not claimed on the .part of the complainant that a contract between him and the city for this work was completed by his putting in the lowest bid under the original advertisement. It is agreed that, in order to *497constitute a contract binding at law, the bid must be accepted and the contract awarded accordingly. What the bill claims is that the City Council is equitably bound to award to him the contract, and that a court of equity will enforce this obligation—at least, to the extent of restraining the Council from awarding the contract to any other person.
I do not find…
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