City of Lakewood v. Rees

November 20th, 1935, David J. Brophy, a Taxpayer, delivered a letter to the Law Director of the City of Lakewood, Ohio, containing after some preliminary statements the following demand :

“I therefore demand that you cause to be instituted legal proceedings to compel repayment to the water fund of the $70,000.00 so transferred; to prevent all further such transfers; to compel an accounting as to any other such transfers if they have occurred; to obtain a reduction of water rates to a figure commensurate with the reasonable cost of supplying water and to obtain a proper disposal of the surplus…