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CITY OF FAIRFIELD v. HARPER DRILLING CO.

No. 03-1067.

692 N.W.2d 681 (2005)

CITY OF FAIRFIELD, Iowa, Appellant, v. HARPER DRILLING COMPANY and National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied February 22, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan T. Webber of Ahlers & Cooney, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Benjamin B. Ullem and John F. Fatino of Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C., Des Moines, and G. Steven Ruprecht of Niewald, Waldeck & Brown, Kansas City, Missouri, for appellees.

WIGGINS, Justice.

In this case, we must decide whether a city can forfeit the bidder's bond of a contractor whose bid the city accepted subject to the approval of another agency. The district court held the city could not forfeit the bidder's bond, dismissed the city's petition, and exonerated the bond. The city appealed and we transferred the case to the court of appeals, which reversed the district court. On further review, we vacate the decision of the court of...

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