Yingling v. Dunlap

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 425
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 141

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Municipal contracts — Failure to advertise — Liability of city official.</p> <p>Where a municipality has by ordinance authorized a contract to be made and appropriated a fund for payments under it, thus complying with the Act of April 2, 1858, P. L. 385, a city official who enters orally, and without previous advertisement for bids, into a contract thus authorized, cannot be held personally liable by the contractor, unless he specifically engages in writing to make himself liable on the contract. In such a ease the contractor must be presumed to know as much as the city’s agent of the legal requirements of an enforceable contract.</p>