Editor Advertiser:
As there is an article in the town meeting warrant to see if the town will accept Summit Ave, I wish to state a few facts so that the voters may vote understandingly upon that article in the next town meeting. I had that street laid out in such a way, and had such a contract made for its construction, that would make a street that should be acceptable to any town, and had a clause in the contract that it should be constructed according to the survey and to the satisfaction of the town of Norwood.
I kept back $100 as a guarantee that the street should be completed according to the contract. When the construction work was nearly completed the contractor demanded the 8100, saying that while it was not quite according to the survey it would be accepted by the town and that the selectmen so informed him. I declined to pay over the money and the case was taken into court and F. A. Fales and George H. Bateman, being selectmen at the time, were there and testifiied that the street was in proper condition for gravel. The question before the court was the grade.
I claimed and proved that it was not completed according to contract survey, but the judge, thinking that if the town through its selectmen was satisfied, I ought to be, the case was given to the contractor. Now but for the interference of those two selectmen, I would have given to the town a good street.
By the action of the selectmen in testifiying as they did, and having graveled about 100 feet of the street, I claim that the town has virtually accepted it, and I decline to do any more work on it. I think the voters of Norwood, after reading the above statement will justify me in my course and vote to accept the street and appropriate money to complete and gravel same.