Lien v. City of Ketchikan

DIMOND, Justice.

The City of Ketchikan has provided for the construction of a hospital with a combination of federal, state and local funds. 1 After approval by the voters at a special election, the city executed an agreement to lease the hospital to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Newark, a charitable, non-profit corporation, for a period of 10 years at a rental of $1.00 a year. Under the terms of the lease the Sisters are to operate and maintain the hospital at their own expense. In this action to cancel the lease the plaintiff-appellant, Lien, assailed the lease arrangement as being invalid on…