Board of Library Trustees v. Board of Trustees

This is an action to restrain defendants from letting a contract for the erection of a public library building in the city of Hanford; the cost thereof to be paid out of the donation of $12,500 made by Andrew Carnegie. A demurrer was interposed to the complaint for insufficiency of facts, also that plaintiff had not legal capacity to sue, also for uncertainty. The demurrer was sustained without leave to amend, and judgment passed for defendants that plaintiffs take nothing by the action.

It appears from the complaint: That Hanford is a city of the sixth class, organized in January, 1892, under…