and then excepts to the adverse ruling of the court on its motion, an appeal from that ruling, six days later, is within Rev. St. 1894, § 1245 (Rev. St. 1881, § 1231), which provides that, in all cases in which a receiver is ap pointed or refused, the party aggrieved may, within 10 days thereafter, appeal from the decision of the court to the supreme court, without awaiting the final determination of the case.-STATE V. UNION NAT. BANK OF MUNCIE, Ind., 44 N. E. Rep. 585.

102. REPLEVIN-Title.-A dredging company, the title to whose property was held by plaintiff as trustee to secure a debt, transferred it to S by a bona fide sale. Subsequently the company wrongfully and without color of right took possession of the property, which was afterwards attached by creditors for a debt of the dredging company: Held that, plaintiff's title being good against all except bona fide creditors whose lien attached while the property was in the ownership and possession of the debtor, it was competent for him to plead and show title in S to support his claim.-POST V. BERWIND-WHITE COAL MIN. Co., Penn., 35 Atl. Rep. 111.

103. RES JUDICATA-School Districts.-The respondent is not estopped, by the judgment on a former application for mandamus, from alleging that the school district of which relator was treasurer had been dissolved.-STATE V. COOLEY, Minn., 68 N. W. Rep. 66.

104. SALE- Conditional Sales - Validity.-A conditional sale of guano, to be used by the purchaser, who was insolvent, in making a crop for himself, is not fraudulent as against the creditors of the purchaser.SOUTH ALABAMA OIL & FERTILIZER Co. v. GARNER, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 628.

105. SALE Consignment of Goods- Reservation of Title. Where an owner consigns goods to a retail dealer in such goods, with the power to sell, though reserving title until settlement is made by the consignee therefor, the title of an innocent purchaser of such goods, for value, from the retail dealer, will prevail over the reserved title of the consignor.-BENT V. JERKINS, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 653.

106. SALE OF CROP-When Title Passess.-Where a crop, to be thereafter raised, harvested, and threshed, was sold before the seed was sown: Held, the contract of sale was not an executed, but an executory contract, and on the evidence the jury were not warranted in finding that the title passed until the grain was ready for delivery.-WELTER V. HILL, Minn., 68 N. W. Rep. 26.

107. SALE Warranty. Where the vendor makes statements as to the quality of the article, but accompanied by an express and positive refusal to warrant it, and a like notice to the vendee that he will not and does not warrant it, his statements as to quality must be deemed mere expressions of opinion, and not a contract of warranty, at least in the absence of any fraud or deceit, and where the property is present for the inspection of the vendee.-LYNCH V. CURFMAN, Minn., 68 N. W. Rep. 5.

108. SET-OFF-Splitting Cause of Action.-An agreement between plaintiff and a firm to which defendant belonged, that orders and time checks turned in to plaintiff by the firm should go against the accounts held by plaintiff against the firm and the individuals composing it, would amount to consent by plaintiff to the splitting up of the firm's cause of action against plaintiff on account of orders and checks turned in.JASPER MERCANTILE CO. V. O'REAR, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 583.

109. SHERIFFS-Limitation of Power of Deputy.-A sheriff cannot deprive a regularly employed deputy of his power to receive process for service, nor limit his authority to the service of such process as should be delivered to him by the sheriff himself; and therefore the sheriff is liable for the failure of the deputy to serve a summons regularly issued and delivered to him by plaintiff's attorney.-ROGERS V. CARROLL, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 602.

110. TAXATION Taxable Property. - Plaintiffs, as dealers in cattle, were accustomed to receive shipments of cattle every Wednesday, which on the following day were sold to local buyers, or exported, as the case might be: Held, that the average weekly shipment, though held but one day, constituted plaintiff's stock in trade within the State, under Code, art. 81, § 2, providing for the taxation of certain kinds of prop. erty within the State.-MYERS V. COMMISSIONERS of BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md., 35 Atl.[Rep. 144.

111. TRIAL - Jury Trial. In a suit to foreclose a mortgage given to secure the purchase price of ma chinery, defendant is not entitled to a trial by jury on a counterclaim for damages arising from a breach of warranty.-SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. V. WASHINGTON, S. Car., 25 S. E. Rep. 45.

112. TRUST-Powers of Trustee.-A deed to a trustee to hold the property for the sole use of the grantor's wife, free from dominion, debts, or liabilities of her present or any future husband, and providing that the "rents, profits, proceeds of, or sale or profits of, said property" shall be held under the same trusts, created an active trust; and a subsequent deed of trust of such property, executed by the husband and wife and the trustee to secure a debt of the husband, was vold.HART V. BAYLISS, Tenn., 36 S. W. Rep. 691.

113. TRUST - Voluntary Association. Where a voluntary association, organized to maintain the price of fish, appointed a committee to make sales thereof for all members, and such committee offered to dispose of all fish furnished by them, no trust relation arose in favor of the members jointly, in funds advanced to such committee on purchases of fish. - FOURNIE V. SHEPARD, Wash., 45 Pac. Rep. 638.

114. TRUSTS-Beneficiaries-Designation.-A conveyance of land in trust to be used, etc., as a place of worship for the use of the white ministry and white membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, subject to the usages and ministerial appointments of said church from time to time authorized and declared by the annual conference in whose bounds the premises are situated, is invalid as a trust, for failure to sufficiently designate the cestui que trustent.-TRUSTEES, ETC. V. TRUSTEES OF JACKSON SQUARE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, Md., 35 Atl. Rep. 8.

115. TRUSTS-Release of Mortgage.-Where an estate was devised to trustees, the survivor of them, or "such person or persons as they or the survivor of them may by last will appoint," with power to invest the same "in their discretion," but the trustees appointed by will failed to appoint any successor, a trustee appointed by the court did not have the discretion vested in the trustees named in the will.-LOWE V. CONVENTION OF PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN DIOCESE OF EASTON, Md., 35 Atl. Rep. 87.

116. USURY-Recovering Back Usurious Interest.Since a usurious contract is voidable merely, at the election of the promisor to avail himself of the defense as allowed by Code, §§ 1750, 1754, assumpsit will not lle to recover back usurious interest voluntarily paid in the absence of an express promise to repay.-GROSS V. COFFEY, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 428.

117. VENDOR AND PURCHASER - Assignment of Contract.-C sold certain land to defendant with covenant to convey on payment of price. By contract with defendant, plaintiff agreed to pay defendant the amount he had paid on such purchase, and to pay C the balance due from defendant the contract providing that upon payment of these amounts C could convey the lot to plaintiff in full satisfaction of his contract with defendant: Held, an assignment of defendant's interest in the covenant of conveyance, and upon the failure of title in C defendant is not liable to plaintiff for the amount paid by him under the contract.CARRIER V. EASTIS, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 595.

118. VENDOR AND PURCHASER-Contracts-Rescission -Laches.-One who was defrauded in the purchase of

land was not entitled to have the contract rescinded, where, several months after discovering the fraud, and after consulting counsel, he joined with his vendor in a deed of the land to another in satisfaction of an incumbrance thereon, and further recognized the validity of the transaction by taking a deed from the latter to himself.-BOSTICK V. HAYNIE, Tenn., 36 S. W. Rep. 856.

119. VENDOR AND PURCHASER Rescission of Contract.-A mortgagee who accepts a deed of land in payment of his debt cannot rescind the contract, on the ground that the land deeded him was not the land viewed by him, where he could have discovered such fact by ordinary care, and the mortgagor was not responsible for his failure to discover it.-BEEBE V. BIRKETT, Mich., 67 N. W. Rep. 966.

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121. VENDOR'S Action to Foreclose.-Pur chasers of an interest in land subject to vendor's lien, of whose rights the lienor has notice, and who have fully paid their immediate vendor for the part bought by them, but who are not made parties to an action to foreclose the lien, upon payment to the purchaser at the foreclosure sale of the amount for which the sale was made, are entitled to have the foreclosure sale and sheriff's deed set aside, and to a decree condemning the remaining interest of their vendor to reimburse them for the amount so paid.-WILSON V. HOUSTON, Tex., 36 S. W. Rep. 832.

122. VILLAGES - Incorporation.-Sanb. & B. Ann. St. §§ 854-866, authorizing territory of a town containing certain area and population to become incorporated as a town on certain steps being taken by the Inhabitants thereof, and on certain determinations by the court and subsequent vote of the inhabitants in favor thereof, delegate legislative power to the court, in violation of Const. art. 4, §§ 1, 22, and Id. art. 11, § 3, in so far as they allow the court to determine whether the lands embraced in the petition "ought justly" to be included in the village, and whether the interest of the inhabitants will be promoted by such incorporation, and to enlarge or diminish the boundaries of the proposed village "as justice may require."-IN RE VILLAGE OF NORTH MILWAUKEE, Wis., 67 N. W. Rep. 1033.

123. WATERS Riparian Rights Great Lakes.-A riparian owner on the shore of the Great Lakes has no ownership in the soil covered by water, but merely a right of fishing and navigation over the water; and therefore Pub. Acts 1895, No. 112, prohibiting, under penalty, the cutting of submarine vegetation, except for the purpose of fishing or navigation, passed in order to make a public shooting ground, is valid.—PEOPLE V. SILBERWOOD, Mich., 67 N. W. Rep. 1087.

124. WILL Charitable Bequest - Indefiniteness.-A gift by will of property in trust for a certain unincorporated church, for the support of the ministry, repairs of the church, or "other benevolent objects as may be designated from time to time by the said Union Church," in its regular action as a church of the Missionary Baptist persuasion, is invalid for indefiniteness in the objects of the trust.-JONES V. GREEN, Tenn., 36 S. W. Rep. 729.

125. WILLS Devise Over.-Under a will devising land to testator's wife for life, provided she does not marry, with a provision that if she does marry the property shall go to another person, to whom it was also provided it should go if testator survived his wife, there is a devise over, going into effect on the death of the widow, she surviving testator, and not remarrying. --SMITH V. CHADWICK, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 436.

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126. WILLS - Estate in Remainder.-Testator queathed to his wife during widowhood all his real es tate, and provided, further, that she could dispose of the same by will between their three children, or the survivors of them, in any way she should see fit, and that, in event of her dying intestate, said estate should be distributed to the children, share and share alike, or to the survivors or survivor of them: Held, that the estates limited in remainder to the children or their survivors vested in them at the death of testator, subject to be divested as to any of them dying before the termination of the particular estate, or by exercise of the power of appointment vested in the widow. -THORINGTON V. THORINGTON, Ala., 20 South. Rep.

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127. WILLS - Precatory Words.-Testator, who derived all his property from his wife, through marital rights and gifts from her, declared: "All the remainder of my estate I give to my beloved wife, be lieving she will do justice between her relatives and mine at her death:" Held, that this vested absolute title in the wife, with unrestricted power of disposi tion; the concluding words being merely precatory, and not equivalent to a command.-HILL V. PAGE, Tenn., 36 S. W. Rep. 735.

128. WILLS Rule in Shelley's Case.-In a devise "to my daughter S during her natural life, and at her decease to be equally divided between the heirs of her body, the following land," etc., the words "equally divided" do not change "heirs of the body" into words of purchase; so as to prevent the operation of the rule in Shelley's Case, under which a fee-simple estate vested in S.-HOLT V. PICKETT, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 432.

129. WITNESS-Husband and Wife.-A husband and wife are incompetent to testify for or against each other in an action for divorce or for alimony.SHEPHERD V. SHEPHERD, Kan., 45 Pac. Rep. 658.

130. WITNESS-Testimony Tending to CriminateRight to Object.-On trial for violation of the liquor law, defendants' counsel requested the court to instruct the witnesses for the State that they need not answer the question whether they had ever bought intoxicating liquor from the defendants, for the reason that an affirmative answer would criminate the wit nesses, in that the dispensary law makes it a misdemeanor to receive intoxicating liquor: Held, that the privilege to refuse to answer a question on the ground that it would tend to criminate himself, being personal to the witness, cannot be taken advantage of by another, and the request was properly refused.-STATE V. BUTLER, S. Car., 24 S. E. Rep. 991.

131. WITNESS-Transactions with Decedent.-The husband of a deceased party, defending an action as her executor, is not precluded, by Rev. St. § 858, from testifying to incidents, occurring with third parties for the benefit of the deceased, as to which she, if living, could not have given testimony to contradict his, although in such transactions he acted at the time as her agent.-HINCHMAN V. PARLIN & Orendorff Co., U. S. C. C. of App., 74 Fed. Rep. 698.

132. WITNESS-Transactions with Decedents.-Under Acts 1890-91, p. 557, which excludes as a witness to transactions with decedents any one having a pecuniary interest in the result of the suit, and provides that no incompetent witness shall make himself competent by transfer of his interest, a wife is not a competent witness, in an action by her husband against an administrator, to transactions between plaintiff and deceased, where she had a pecuniary interest pending the suit, and rescinded the contract by which she ac quired such interest for the purpose of making her a competent witness.-GLOVER V. GENTRY, Ala., 20 South. Rep. 386.

133. WRONGFUL ATTACHMENT

Malice.-Probable cause for suing out an attachment may have existed though the attachment was unauthorized.-GIMBEL V. GOMPRECHT, Tex., 36 8. W. Rep. 781.

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ST. LOUIS, MO., SEPTEMBER 25, 1896.

Those of our readers, who find diversion in the oddities and eccentricities which occa sionally make their appearance in the opinions of courts, will be amply repaid by an examination of the opinion of the Supreme Court of Georgia in the recent case of Green v. Coast Line R. Co., reported in 24 S. E. Rep. 814. It is certainly unique in the history of jurisprudence. A peculiarity of the case is that ex-Chief Justice Bleckley, who retired from the bench in 1894, assisted the court in deciding it, and at their request prepared the opinion which is characteristic of that eccentric but able jurist.

The case was that of a widow against a railroad company, arising out of the killing of the plaintiff's husband and son, and the learned ex-Chief Justice fairly lets himself out in favor of the widow. After judgment for damages for the homicide, the railroad company had become insolvent, and the question involved was whether the widow's judgments should take priority over a mortgage previously executed on the income and corpus of the road.

The judgment was recovered after default under the mortgage, but before the appointment of a receiver, and while the company was still operating the road. Contrary to the general current of authority, the court decided that the judgment should in equity be deemed a part of the running expenses, and a preferred charge upon the income; and the latter having been diverted for betterments and other expenses, that the judgment should be a preferred charge upon the corpus. Discussing the subject of preferential debts incurred in keeping up a railway as a going concern, the opinion thus speaks: "Every direct authority known to us is against us. Nevertheless we are right, and these authorities are all wrong, as time and further judicial study of the subject will manifest. The mistake made by courts and judges has been that they treat the problem of preferential debts as having but one pole-the affirmative pole of benefit-ignoring the negative pole of burden altogether. * There seems to be a theory that if mortgaged railroads

can be kept going concerns, it matters not what else may stop. That the public is decidedly the most important going concern in existence appears to be overlooked. As a part of the public, the husband and son of Mrs. Green were going concerns, and the going of this railroad was the cause of their ceasing to be such.

The cases upon which we are animadverting would treat as a preferential debt a claim for the coal or wood consumed in generating the steam which killed them, but would deny any preference whatever to a judgment for damages resulting from the homicide." After elaborating the theory of the positive and negative poles of benefit and burden, and experimenting with electric similes, we have a display of genuine fire-works, as follows: "Two of the most important and best considered cases which lie in our path are Hiles v. Case, 14 Fed. Rep. 141, and Trust Co. v. Riley, 16 C. C. A. 610, 70 Fed. Rep. 32. In the first there were several interveners, who wanted damages for burning their timber and cranberry marsh. The fire resulted from sparks escaping from locomotives. In a bright,

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clear and admirable opinion, except that it fights on the wrong side, * *** Judge Dyer proceeds to fire interveners from his court by a volley of judicial sparks."

The closing paragraph of the opinion deals with the Roentgen rays and Thompson on Corporations. After complimenting that work the Georgia Nestor proceeds to show that even this high authority has failed to notice his theory of the positive and negative poles or the light thrown from his Cathode ray but is still stumbling about in tallow candle half light with the other authorities cited.

The most peculiar feature of the opinion are two companion pictures appended-the first illustrating "the hand of the mortgagee extended for all" and the "hand of the widow and ex-mother extended for some" "before exposure to the Cathode ray." The merit of each is represented by the shading-the mortgagee having much the better of it. The other picture represents the same hands "after exposure" to the Cathode ray of the exChief Justice's mental camera-the bones and sinews of the widow's hands being brought out in deep dark lines, while the hand of the bold, bad mortgagee shows as white and as

hard as his stony selfish heart. The idea of the whole thing is certainly original but with all its eccentricities, the opinion is learned and persuasive and will well repay a careful perusal.

NOTES OF RECENT DECISIONS.

SALES

DELIVERY.-In Kellogg Newspaper Co. v. Peterson, 44 N. E. Rep. 411, decided by the Supreme Court of Illinois, it was held that where heavy printing machinery and appliances located in leased rooms are sold in good faith, the locking of the doors and surrender of the keys by the vendor to the vendee is a sufficient delivery of the property. Among other things the court said, that "where goods and chattels sold are of a nature or character that they do not admit of an actual, immediate and complete delivery, the law recognizes and allows a symbolical delivery, as being a sufficient transfer and delivery. The delivery of the keys of a store or building in which goods are, is construed clearly expressive of a symbolic delivery which will pass the possession where such is the intent of the parties in good faith. Wilkes v. Ferris, 5 Johns. 335; Packard v. Dunsmore, 11 Cush. 282; Marsh v. Fuller, 18 N. H. 360; Vining v. Gilbreth, 39 Me. 496; Sullivan v. Smith, 15 Neb. 476, 19 N. W. Rep. 620; Sharp v. Carroll, 66 Wis. 62, 27 N. W. Rep. 832; Hart v. Wing, 44 Ill. 141; Logsdon v. Spivey, 54 Ill. 104; Ticknor v. McClelland, 84 Ill. 471; Feltenstein v. Stein, 157 Ill. 19, 44 N. E. Rep.-. The goods and chattels sold were of a nature and character that were not susceptible of an actual, complete and immediate delivery and removal; and, the sale being in good faith, a symbolical delivery, by locking the doors and delivering the keys to the appellee, was a delivery of possession to him, and was not fraudulent, in fact or in law, as against appellant. It is a principle of construction that laws which enlarge the common law remedy by distress must be strictly interposed. Our statute does not give the landlord prior lien by distress greater than existed at common law, except in the case of crops grown or growing on the demised premises. Hadden v. Knickerbocker, 70 Ill. 677. At common law, a levy of a distress warrant could only be made

upon the demised premises, and a right of distress terminated by a removal of goods from such demised premises, and the goods of a stranger upon the demised premises, except in a very few instances, were, at com. mon law, liable to distress. The excepted cases were such as the goods of a boarder in his room, etc., on the premises. By section 16, ch. 80, of the Landlord and Tenant act, the landlord may seize for rent any personal property of his tenant that may be found in the county where the tenant resides. That section then provides: "And in no case shall the property of any other person, although the same be found on the premises, be liable to seizure for rent due from such tenant." At common law, the goods of a tenant were free from a lien until they were actually taken; the lien attached on seizure only, except as to crops grown or growing upon the demised premises. That is the rule in this State.

A landlord can in this State, with the above exception, only acquire a lien by commencing proceedings. Until he does so the tenant is as much the owner of his effects as any other person who owns property and owes debts. No dormant or secret lien of a landlord exists against a tenant's property until a seizure by distress or other proceeding. The tenant may sell, and the buyer may remove, the purchased goods. The tenant may convey title where his sale is made in good faith on the part of both buyer and seller. Morgan v. Campbell, 22 Wall. 381; Becker v. Dupree, 75 Ill. 167; Hadden v. Knickerbocker, supra."

CONTRACTS

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS REJECTION OF BID LIABILITY TO Bidder.In Talbot Paving Co. v. City of Detroit, 67 N. W. Rep. 979, decided by the Supreme Court of Michigan, it was held that though a city charter requires contracts to be let to the lowest bidder, the lowest bidder under a contract proposed to be let by it, whose bid has been rejected, has no right of action at law against the city to recover the profits which might have been made had his bid been accepted. The court says in part:

While it is true that there are many cases in which an injunction has been ordered because of the rejec tion of the lowest bid, and acceptance of a higher bid, under the same notice of letting the contract (Times Pub. Co. v. City of Everett [Wash.], 37 Pac. Rep. 605, and cases there cited), yet we find no cases, except as referred to hereafter, where a party has been per

mitted under such circumstances to bring and maintain an action at law for loss of profits. There are also cases which hold that the local assessment is void if the contract is not awarded to the lowest bidder. Twiss v. City of Port Huron, 63 Mich. 528, 30 N. W. Rep. 177. While, under the charter of Detroit, it was the duty of the city to let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, yet this charter provision was not passed for the benefit of the bidder, but as a protection to the public. We think the rule as stated in Strong v. Campbell, 11 Barb. 138, is the true one, and the one which has always been adhered to by the courts. It is there stated as follows: "Wherever an action is brought for a breach of duty imposed by statute, the party bringing it must show that he had an interest in the performance of the duty, and that the duty was imposed for his benefit. But where the duty was created or imposed for the benefit of another, and the advantage to be derived to the party prosecuting by its performance is merely incidental, and no part of the design of the statute, no such right is created as forms the subject of an action." The learned judge writing the opinion in that case cites, in support of this rule, the cases of Bank v. Mott, 17 Wend. 556; Martin v. Mayor, etc., 1 Hill, 545, 19 Vin. Abr. 518; 1 Salk. 19; Ashby v. White, 6 Mod. 51. The court in Strong v. Campbell, supra, said: "It is unquestionably the duty of every officer to perform every duty imposed upon him by law in the manner and to the extent prescribed, and he may be punished for every violation to the injury of the public or that of individuals. But it does not follow that some one has a right of action against him for every neglect or violation of duty to recover private damages." Mr. Justice Selden, in the case of Trustees of the Village of Plattsburgh, 16 N. Y. 161, note, filed an opinion written by him in the case of Weet v. Trustees of the Village of Brockport, which was adopted by the court as decisive of the Plattsburgh case. The learned justice reviews at great length the various cases, both English and American, upon the subject. He says: "We see from the two classes of cases that there is an important distinction between the obligations assumed by private individuals for a consideration received from the government or sovereign power of the State and those assumed by public officers. The reason for the distinction appears to be that intimated by Gould, J., in Lane v. Cotton, 1 Ld. Raym. 646, viz.: that the duties in the one case are imposed upon the officer for public purposes only, while in the other they are voluntarily assumed with a view to private advantage. The cases which have been cited show that, in respect to this distinction, corporations have been placed upon the same footing as private individuals." Continuing, Mr. Justice Seldon says that he has been able to find only one case in this country or in England opposed to those views, and that is the case of Adsit v. Brady, 4 Hill, 630.

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In view of this rule, what is the position of the city of Detroit toward the plaintiff? It owed no duty to the plaintiff. The charter provisions which required the acceptance of the lowest responsible bid had no reference to any interest which the bidder might have in the premises, but was passed to protect the interest of the citizens of the city. Though the act accepting the second bid may have been against the interest of the citizens, certainly the plaintiff could have no action to redress that wrong and injury. It may have been, and evidently was, under the facts shown, a neglect of duty, and the plaintiff undoubtedly was injured by it. The case of Adsit v. Brady, supra, was decided upon the theory that, when a public officer acts

or omits to act contrary to his duty, the law gives redress to the injured party by an action adapted to the nature of his case. But, as we have seen, that rule is not sustained, except in cases where the act performed or omitted to be performed was with a view to some private advantage. But, it is contended, this rule would be a great burden upon the public, and lead to great frauds in municipal affairs. It may be said in answer to this proposition: First, that the public are not here complaining; and, second, that the plaintiff is not in a position to take advantage of the act, as the charter was not adopted for its individual benefit. Again, it is apparent that, if frauds may be perpetrated in that way, there is a remedy by injunction to prevent the making of a contract with the next highest bidder. We are of the opinion that the plaintiff cannot sustain this action.

MASTER AND SERVANT-CONTRACT TO PAY FOR SERVICES-WHEN IMPLIED.-The question as to the implied obligation to pay for services not expressly contracted for came before the Supreme Court of Oregon in Kiser v. Holladay, 45 Pac. Rep. 759, the court holding that, as between strangers, where one performs services for the benefit and with the knowledge and tacit consent of another, under such circumstances as give the latter reason to believe that payment therefor is expected, a promise to pay a reasonable compensation will be implied. The court says in part:

It is insisted that, before the defendant could be made liable for the services of plaintiff, they must have been performed at his request, or he must have promised to pay for them after knowledge thereof. Glenn v. Savage, 14 Or. 577, 13 Pac. Rep. 442. No recovery can be had for an act done for the benefit of another as a voluntary courtesy, and without his request. This is the doctrine announced in the case just cited, which is not only sound law, but is in consonance with good morals. But the law will imply a request on proof of certain circumstances and the beneficial nature of the services. Osborne v. Rogers, 1 Saund. 264, note 1; Moore v. Fox, 10 Johns. *244. Spencer, J., in Oatfield v. Waring, 14 Johns. *192, says: "A request may be inferred from the beneficial nature of the consideration, and the circumstances of the transaction." See, also, Forbis v. Inman, 23 Or. 72, 31 Pac. Rep. 204, and Force v. Haines, 17 N. J. Law, 412, where the doctrine is approved. As between strangers, the rule seems to be that, when one person performs services for the benefit and with the knowledge and tacit consent of another, the law implies a promise to pay a reasonable compensation. Weston v. Davis, 24 Me. 375; Hart v. Hess, 41 Mo. 445; Schwarz v. Schwarz, 26 Ill. 81; Lewis v. Trickey, 20 Barb. 387; Livingston v. Ackeston, 5 Cow. 531; Guild v. Guild, 15 Pick. 129. But the implication of such a promise may be overcome by evidence of an understanding that no compensation should be made. See two cases last above cited. Where there is such an understanding, the law cannot imply a promise, and the understanding itself may be implied from circumstances. Moulin v. Columbet, 22 Cal. 510. It is said the law will not imply the promise where a near relationship exists, such as parent and child, or