Kotschevar v. Township of North Fork

The authorities cited in the majority opinion, and which it follows, with the exception of the cases of Lindgren v. Towns of Algoma and Norland, 187 Minn. 31, 244 N. W. 70, and Mares v. Janutka, 196 Minn. 87, 264 N. W. 222, either arose under statutory or charter provisions containing no prohibition against letting contracts in any other manner than by a letting to the lowest bidder after advertising for bids, or entirely ignore such prohibition. All of them entirely ignore, as does the majority opinion here, not only the public policy of the prohibition, which is aimed at waste of public…