95 Neb. 455 | Neb. | 1914
This action is for repairs to the same bridge involved in Buffalo County v. Kearney County, ante, p. 439, and the principal question presented is the same as was presented in that case, which was decided against the appellant for the reasons there given. In this case the two counties entered into a contract with the plaintiff for the repairs of the bridge. The questions presented, not included in the case above referred to, are apparently two.
It is contended that the contract was invalid, because it was not duly authorized by the defendant county, and because the notice of the proposed letting of the contract was not published in both counties. It appears from the record that the county board of the defendant county resolved to enter into a joint contract with the county of Buffalo for these repairs. Mr. Bloodgood, a member of the county board of the defendant county, and one of the bridge committee of that board, attended a meeting of the county board of the county of Buffalo at the opening of the bids, and he testified that the bridge committee, of which he was a member, was authorized to examine the bridge and ascertain whether the repairs were necessary, and that he himself was authorized, after it was found that repairs were necessary, to execute in behalf of the defendant county a joint contract with the. county of Buffalo for the repairs of the bridge. This was probably not the best
It is conceded that the notice for the reception of bids was published in Buffalo county, and the contention is that it should have been published in the defendant county also. There is, however, no warrant for this contention , in the statute. Those sections of the statute providing for the joint action of tiie counties in repairing bridges contain no provision in regard to the publication of the notice. The section of the statute which provides for the publication of notice is 2964, Rev. St. 1913: “Before any contract shall be let as aforesaid, the county board shall cause to be published for four consecutive weeks, in ü newspaper printed and of general circulation in the county, and if there be no newspaper printed in the county, then in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, an
The judgment of the district court is
Affirmed.