Hagler v. City of Salem

The plaintiff, as a citizen and taxpayer of the city of Salem, brought this suit seeking to have declared invalid, and to enjoin the performance of, a contract entered into between said city and Fairbanks, Morse and Company, a corporation, whereby the city of Salem undertook to purchase from that company two engines and other equipment and machinery for use in a municipal electric plant.

Salem is a city of the fourth class. On April 2, 1929, at a special election, duly called and held, a proposition was submitted to, and adopted and approved by, the voters of Salem "to increase the…