Bassett v. Armstrong

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

In this case, one of appellants, later joined by the others, filed a taxpayer’s class bill, whereby, as stated in their history of the case, they “sought to restrain the defendants, the county commissioners of Allegheny County, and the controller and the treasurer of the county, from making any further payments to the Poole Engineering & Machine Company on account of a contract entered into for the purchase of eleven hundred (1100) voting machines, on the grounds that the ma chines delivered were defective and did not meet the requirements of the specifications;…