Stratton v. City of Detroit

By a bond issue, the city of Detroit provided one million dollars to be expended in the erection of a municipal tuberculosis sanitarium in Wayne county. Three hundred thousand dollars of this amount was expended for the site, leaving $700,000 for building purposes. This project was under the supervision of tbe Detroit board of health. After practically two years of preliminary consideration and investigation, the city of Detroit, acting through its board of health, on October 21, 1919, entered into a contract with the plaintiffs to render services as architects and in part to supervise the…