ISTARI CONST., INC. v. CITY OF MUSCATINE

No. 68135.

330 N.W.2d 798 (1983)

ISTARI CONSTRUCTION, INC., an Iowa Corporation, Appellant, v. CITY OF MUSCATINE, Iowa; City Council of the City of Muscatine, Iowa, and Evelyn Schauland, Don Platt, Sue Koehrsen, Robert Rada, Joan Hilton, Larry Kemp, and Richard Waltman, as Individual Members of the City Council of the City of Muscatine, Iowa, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Stengel, Jr., of Coyle, Gilman & Stengel, Rock Island, Ill., for appellant.

J.W. Conway and Harvey G. Allbee, Jr., of Allbee, Conway, Allison & Denning, Muscatine, for appellees.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and UHLENHOPP, LARSON, SCHULTZ, and CARTER, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

In this certiorari action, plaintiff, Istari Construction, Inc., challenges the legality of action by defendant Muscatine City Council in refusing to accept its low bid on a housing project, awarding the project to the next lowest bidder, and then rejecting all bids and readvertising. Plaintiff asserts (1) that Iowa Code section 384.100 prevents the council from rejecting all bids once an award has been made and (2) that the council could not reject...

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