50 Iowa 668 | Iowa | 1879
The making of an improvement may seem to be expedient at one time and inexpedient later. The price of labor and materials may advance. Unforeseen difficulties may arise in the character of the work. Some shift may be discovered that will answer at least a temporary purpose. The city treasury may be depleted by fire, robbery, defalcation, or .some ’extraordinary and unforeseen expenditure. Of course, if a work is let by contract and abandoned, the contractor
Affirmed.
Mr. Justice Seevers, while concurring in the result, does so upon the ground that he thinks that the city did not ■attempt to enter into the alleged contract, and expresses no opinion as to whether it had the power to do so.