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- Title: Hitchcock v. Galveston
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1877
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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Mr. F. Charles Hume and Mr. S. S. Henkle for the plaintiffs in error. Where a municipal corporation has power to do certain work it may order its agents, for it and in its name, to enter into the requisite contract, which will be binding upon it. Burrill v. The City of Boston, 2 Cliff. 590; Ford v. Williams, 21 How. 287; San Antonio v. Lewis, 9 Tex. 69; Bank of Columbia v. Patterson, 7 Cranch, 299; Dunn v. Rector of St. Andrew's Church, 14 Johns. (N. Y.) 118; Glidden v. Unity, 33 N. H. 577; 2 Kent, Com. 290; Angell & Ames, Corp., sect. 212; Fitton v. Hamilton City, 6 Nev. 196; Smiley v. Mayor, &c., 6 Heisk. (Tenn.) 604; Story, Contr., sect. 312; Hoyt v. Thompson's Executor, 19 N. Y. 207; Abby v. Billups, 35 Miss. 618; Alton v. Mulledy, 21 Ill. 76; Dillon, Mun. Corp., sects. 132, 374; Story, Agency, sect. 54; Clark v. Mayor, &c. of Washington, 12 Wheat. 40; Fanning v. Gregorie et al., 16 How. 524; Sharp v. Mayor, &c. of New York, 25 How. (N. Y.) Pr. 388; Dickerson v. Peters, 71 Pa. St. 53; Northern Central Railway Co. v. Mayor, &c. of Baltimore, 21 Md. 93.