Schaefer v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Richard P. Schaefer, a taxpayer, has sued the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Property and Supplies in equity seeking a decree preliminarily and permanently enjoining the defendant from accepting and opening bids for school buses.

The plaintiff alleges that the Department of Property and Supplies mailed to school bus vendors an invitation to submit bid proposals for school buses in kinds and numbers to meet the estimated requirements of certain school districts and intermediate units of the Commonwealth, and that the Department had no statutory power to engage in this…