State, Ex Rel. Hoeffler v. Griswold

This action was instituted in the court of common pleas by plaintiffs as taxpayers, for themselves and others similarly situated, seeking an injunction restraining defendants from proceeding to carry out a contract with Robert H. Evans & Co. for the construction of certain buildings at the Institution for Feeble-Minded at Apple Creek, and praying that the contract be declared illegal, unconstitutional and void, and that, if found to be legal, defendant Griswold, director of the department of public welfare, be required to award a contract for the construction of the buildings according to…