Lord v. City & County of Honolulu

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, C.J.

With the exception below mentioned the case is correctly stated by the plaintiff as follows: “This is a bill for injunction brought by a taxpayer to restrain the City and County of Honolulu from entering into a contract with J. A. Gilman for the paving of a portion of Port Street, Honolulu, and to restrain the auditor of the city and county from making payments under said contract. The complaint is based on the facts that this contract involves the expenditure of over $500, to-wit about $16,000, of public money for a public work, and that it was awarded…