Washington Paving Co. v. City of Tacoma

Citations

• 78 Wash. 282
• 138 P. 870
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1012

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Improvements—Contracts—Construction. Where a contract for a public improvement provided that the contractor should pay the city a lump sum of $2,500 for all survey and inspection service which might be necessary, and include it in its bids, the city cannot recover of the contractor a sum actually expended in such service in excess of the $2,500.</p> <p>Same — Contracts—Performance—Time Limit — Acceptance. A city cannot claim violation of a contract for an improvement, in failing to finish the work within the 150-day limit for completion of the contract, where it does not appear but what the delay was the fault of the city, the contract was subject to extension, and the city acquiesced in the delay without objection and accepted the work.</p>