Stigall v. City of Taft

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of dismissal entered upon demurrers to the complaint which were sustained without leave to amend. Plaintiff seeks a declaration of the invalidity of a certain contract for plumbing work to be performed by the defendant Taft Plumbing Company, Inc., for the defendant City of Taft.

Plaintiff, a taxpayer of the City of Taft, alleges in his complaint that Glenn D, Black was a member of the city *567council and was in charge of the council’s building committee of the City of Taft for several years prior to June 8, 1961; that the committee supervised the…