Leight v. Rupert

Opinion by

Judge Lindsay:

The record in this case shows that the hoard of aldermen and the common council did each keep a regular journal, and that a full-and perfect record of the proceedings touching the passage of the ordinances and the approval of the' contract involved in this litigation was kept. There is nothing in the testimony of the witness Vaughan tending to. bring this case within the rule laid down in the case of McKegney, 7 Bush 651. The proof in that case showed conclusively that no journal had been kept at all, but that the ordinances were merely published in a newspaper, and…