Board of Commissioners v. Cincinnati Steam Heating Co.

On the 25th day of September, 1883, the board of commissioners of Gibson county entered into a contract with Joseph G. Miller for the erection of a courthouse. The plans and specifications were adopted at a meeting of the board on the 7th day of August, 1883, and notices inviting proposals for building the court-house were published for more than six weeks prior to the time the contract was awarded. The notice was published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of Gibson. Miller entered upon the work under the contract, and on the 29th day of December, 1884, made a contract with…