Corker v. Commissioners of Elmore County

Citations

• 10 Idaho 255
• 77 P. 633
• 1904 Ida. LEXIS 31

Syllabus

<p>Road District Contracts — Contractor—Power of Commissioners to Release Contractor.</p> <p>1. A board of county commissioners has neither express nor implied power to accept the resignation of a bidder to whom they have duly and regularly awarded a contract under section 875, Revised Statutes (Sess. Laws 1899, p. 129), for the care, keeping and repair of the roads of a contract road district.</p> <p>2. It is to the interest of the county that such contracts be enforced. On the other hand, it is against the interest of the county for contractors to be released and relieved from their obligations.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>