Herbert v. City of Richland Center

The city’s refusal to restore the bridge rests on the proposition that its duties in respect thereto are only those imposed on it by the contract by which it acquired the bridge and, that contract being void because of the interest which one of the aldermen had in it, performance of the contract obligations cannot be compelled. It is true that the complaint states that the action is brought for a judicial determination of the city’s liability to make the bridge again “available for public use in compliance with the conditions under which the original bridge was given to said city.”

Sec. 370.01…