Duffy v. City of Saginaw
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Saginaw; Wilber, J. Bill by James Duffy and others against the city of Saginaw and Henry Melchers, city treasurer, to cancel a paving assessment. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcGrath, C. J.
This is a bill to cancel a paving assessment upon three grounds: First, that there was no legal advertisement forbids before letting the contract; second, that no detail estimate of the cost of the improvement was certified to the council; third, that the certificate of the board of public works to the assessment roll is no! valid, because it was not signed by the members of such, board.
Section 3, tit. 13, of the charter provides that the board' of public works “shall -advertise for proposals for the furnishing of material and for the performance of such work.” Local Acts 1889, p. 946. The…
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