45 Neb. 239 | Neb. | 1895
Briefly, the material facts in this case are: On the 27th day of June, 1892, the electors of school district No. 14 of Saunders county, at their regular annual meeting held on that day, voted (he erection of a school house on the school grounds belonging to said district, such school house not to exceed a specified sum, there then being in the treasury of said district sufficient funds to build such school house, which funds had been previously raised for that purpose. At such meeting the electors of said district by a vote appointed S. W. Auten, Moritz Ladenburger, and Jasper Swan, three electors of said district, a building committee, and instructed them to advertise for bids for building such school house, and to build a school house on the grounds belonging to the district. The gentlemen appointed as such building committee entered into a contract with one Michael Sorrick, in and by which the latter contracted to furnish the material and build a school house on the school district grounds. The contract between the building committee and Sorrick did not expressly recite that the building committee was acting for and on behalf of the school district. Sorrick also gave a bond to the building committee, naming them individually, as obligees to cpm
Affirmed.