Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1913 — Must Act ,in Ten Days or Contract Stands. [ARTICLE]

Must Act ,in Ten Days or Contract Stands.

The appellate court has held that the owner of property in an incorporated town must act within ten days -after a contract is let by the board of trustees for an incorporated town, if he wishes to bring an injunction to set the contract aside. The decision is made in reversing the White circuit court tor granting property owners of the town of Monticello an injunction against Anthony A. Anheier and the trustees of the town, forbidding the performance of a contract for the construction of a sewer at a cost of $21,950, which was $6,950 in excess of the estimate made when the proceedings for its x construction were commenced, t? The court said the legislature has wisely put a time limit on the collateral attacks against contracts for public improvements of a town, and the property owners having waited more than their time can not now be heard in an injunction proceeding.