Legal Opinion

City of Detroit v. Hosmer

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 31, 1890PublishedCited by 39 opinions

Mandamus. Relator applied for mandamus to compel the dissolution of an injunction, etc. - The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.

Respondent allowed, and refused to dissolve, an injunction to restrain the city of Detroit, and its several agencies, from making a contract for city lighting .under an accepted bid of the Detroit Electric Light & Power Company. The ■ bill under which the *386injunction was allowed was filed by the Brush Electric Light Company, and several private citizens, claiming to be tax-payers of Detroit, and made the chief ground of interference, and the only one seriously urged in this Court, to be a failure of the city to ■ advertise for lighting, with such specifications as were necessary to enable…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Maclean v. SpeedMichigan Supreme Court · 1883
  2. Attorney General ex rel. Cook v. City of DetroitMichigan Supreme Court · 1872
  3. Tawas & Bay County Railroad v. Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1880
  4. Axtell v. GibbsMichigan Supreme Court · 1884
  5. People ex rel. Port Huron & Gratiot Railway Co. v. Judge of St. Clair CircuitMichigan Supreme Court · 1875

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