In re Thomas Cawthron (Deceased) - [1917] NZLR 192

Contract — Consideration — Promise by Testator to City Council to pay for Bridge according to One of Two Alternative Designs — Mode of Choice undetermined — Expenditure by Council on Plans — Promise by Testator to City Council to pay for New Road subject to Conditions — Road to be partly outside City — Conditions satisfied by Council — Death of Testator — Whether Testator's Promises binding on Executors — Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, ss 131, 159.