Regan v. Babcock

1 Reported in 247 N.W. 12. These appeals involve six taxpayers' suits brought to have as many highway paving and grading contracts declared void and for injunctive relief to prevent the performance of such contracts and payment of the contract prices by the state. The contractor defendants demurred to the complaints. The demurrers were sustained, and the plaintiffs have appealed. The defendants Babcock and Ellison, the highway commissioner and engineer, joined in an answer, as did the defendants Pearlove, Erickson, and Wittich, commissioners of administration and finance. The state of…