Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1910 — CONTRACTOR LOSES SUIT. [ARTICLE]

CONTRACTOR LOSES SUIT.

Went Ahead on Newton County Court House Before Money Was Appropriated. A judgment was affirmed Friday by the appellate court refusing payment to Erick Lund of Hammond for labor done and materials furnished to the amount of $3,500 in beginning the construction of a courthouse at Kentland. There had been no appropriation by the county ciuncil of money to pay for the new courthouse at the time Lund took the contract and began work. Judge Watson said: “It was necessary to allege and prove that the county council had appropriated money necessary to pay the expenditure to be made by the commissioners on account of and at the time the supposed contract was made on which this action is based.”