Smith v. Ballard

We are concerned here only with the question of whether a resolution of a municipal governing board for the employment of special legal counsel in certain cases was sufficiently definite to constitute a contract for such service. The problem arose in this manner. On August 22, 1955, appellant D. D. Smith filed in the Chancery Court of Lee County a suit against appellees, the mayor and chief of police of the City of Tupelo, and the City, seeking to enjoin defendants from enforcing against him certain zoning ordinances, and preventing him from installing gasoline pumps and tanks in front of his…