City of Battle Creek v. Haak

The defendant was an alderman of the city of Battle Creek, and as chairman of the bridge committee had charge of the repairing of some of its walks, bridges, etc., for which he furnished the materials, bills, being filed, and allowed by the council from time to time, and afterwards paid. Suspicions of the honesty of the defendant having arisen, some members of the council made investigation of the items for which bills had been rendered by the defendant, and this led to the bringing of this, action to recover from him a large sum, claimed to have been paid for fraudulent items. A trial…