Arbuckle-Ryan Co. v. City of Grand Ledge
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Eaton; Smith, J. Assumpsit by the Arbuckle-Ryan Company against the city of Grand Ledge for goods sold and delivered. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
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Error to Eaton; Smith, J. Assumpsit by the Arbuckle-Ryan Company against the city of Grand Ledge for goods sold and delivered. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error. The city of Grand Ledge, through its proper officers, on the 23d day of June, 1896, in pursuance of a resolution unanimously adopted by the common council on the same day, entered into a contract with the Chase Construction Company, of Detroit, Mich., by the terms of which contract the construction .company, in consideration of the sum of $2,650 and certain used machinery, agreed to furnish one Russell engine, the…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
(after stating the facts; dissenting). *494The contract which is the real basis of this suit is attacked as void because not within the power of the council to make. Counsel do not disagree as to the law. The following propositions are so well settled that the citation of authorities is unnecessary:
1. The agents of municipal corporations are limited to the power expressly conferred or necessarily implied.
2. Parties dealing with municipal corporations through their agents are conclusively presumed to know the law, and deal with them at their own risk.
3. When the charters of municipal corporations…
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- Nelson v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
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- Trump Manufacturing Co. v. Village of BuchananMichigan Supreme Court · 1898
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