Baumgartner v. City of Renton

Citations

• 96 Wash. 588
• 165 P. 484
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 618

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Public Improvements — Contracts—Decision oe Engineer — Conclusiveness — Acceptance — Estoppel. A provision in a contract for municipal work that no improvement shall be deemed complete until the city engineer has filed a statement so declaring and no acceptance shall prevent the city from thereafter making claim for defective work discovered two years after completion modifies the clause that the engineer’s decision as to the work to he paid for shall he final and conclusive, and permits the city to recoup for defective work discovered within the two years, and the city would not he estopped hy the fact that the city engineer and inspector were on the ground and permitted the defective work to go on.</p>