MADRID LUMBER COMPANY v. Boone County

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing cases that permit equitable relief where there were “mere irregularities in proceedings or settlements made under valid contracts,” noting case at hand involved “an oral agreement contrary to the statutory requirements”
• “Courts of equity can no more disregard statutory requirements than can a court of law.”
• construction contract entered into in violation of bidding and advertisement requirements of statute unenforceable
• “When the legislature permits the exercise of power in a given case only in accordance with imposed restrictions, a contract entered into in violation thereof is not merely voidable but void.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).