People ex rel. Argus Co. v. Palmer

The question presented is whether, under the statute authorizing the defendants as the board to award the contract for certain public and legislative printing to the lowest bidder, they can adopt as a basis for computation, in order to determine who is the lowest bidder, extra copies of legislative bills assumed by the board to be called for and ordered by the concurrent resolution of the senate and assembly in 1892, such extra copies being in excess of the number of copies authorized to be printed by section 72 of the Legislative Act. (Chap. 682, Laws 1892.)

The board advertised for…