Berghage v. City of Grand Rapids

Plaintiffs, as residents and taxpayers of the city of Grand Rapids, seek an injunction to prevent defendants from carrying out a contract by which the Herald Publishing Company was engaged to do the public printing for the city of Grand Rapids from May 2, 1932, to May 1, 1933. It is alleged by plaintiffs that the contract was entered into by the city commission arbitrarily, unjustly, in bad faith, and that in so doing a fraud has been perpetrated upon the taxpayers of Grand Rapids. After a hearing in open court, the trial judge found that the material allegations of the bill of complaint had…