State, Ex Rel. Roettinger v. City of Cincinnati

This is a taxpayer’s suit against the City of Cincinnati, and grows out of a contract entered into in February, 1924, to house the Municipal Court of Cincinnati in the county court house.

The petition of the relator, after the necessary jurisdictional allegations, states that on February 15, 1924, the county commissioners of Hamilton county entered into a contract of lease with the City of Cincinnati for certain rooms on the fifth floor of the county court house, together with janitor service, light and tele phone service, for a period of five years; the consideration named in the contract…