Staheli

The defendant city appeals from a judgment awarding to plaintiff the sum of $1,071.42, balance claimed as due under a contract calling for services in connection with designing and construction of a pier at Redondo Beach. On February 14, 1928, the board of trustees of Redondo Beach passed a resolution reading as follows :

On this same day, P. W. Kranz, who on April 4, 1928, had been awarded the contract for building the pier, signed the formal agreement for doing the work with the mayor of the city and the street superintendent of the City of Redondo Beach, acting under the authority granted by the statute governing public work known as the “Improvement Act of 1911”. This contract provided that the work should be performed “in good and workmanlike manner under the direction and to the satisfaction of the City Engineer of the City of Redondo Beach, Calif., and with materials complying with the specifications hereinafter mentioned and to the satisfaction of the said City Engineer”.

On April 23, 1928, according to the minutes recorded by the city clerk “Bids were read of the various applicants for the position of City Engineer. Trustee Shea moved that Mr. B. L. Bundy be appointed…