Village of Brewster v. Hill

The village of Brewster is a small village embracing between fifteen hundred and two thousand inhabitants. At and prior to the time this contract was entered into with the village, the latter owned a distribution system which furnished current obtained from the Ohio Public Service Company. The village deemed it best to manufacture its own current, and, with that purpose in view, the two ordinances were adopted and negotiations had between the contractor and the village whereby the former proposed to furnish certain generating machinery equipment for the local village plant for the sum of…