Trotter v. Town of Glenmora

Defendant, a town of some 1,500 inhabitants, availing itself of the generous paternalism of the Federal Government, enlisted the aid of the Works Progress Administration, a Federal agency, hereafter referred to as the WPA, in its desire to have a system of gas lines installed throughout its limits. Eighteen miles of piping were laid. The only part the town exercised in the confection, execution and consummation of the project was to sponsor it, designate the streets on which the lines were to be laid, inspect the piping before laid to ascertain its efficiency and to pay a small part of the…