Reid v. City of Mobile

Appellant brought this suit against the city of Mobile to recover the purchase price of 54 volumes of the ordinances of the city enacted subsequent to the Municipal Code of 1907. Demurrer having been sustained to his original complaint and to the several counts thereof, as amended, plaintiff took a nonsuit on account of said adverse ruling on the pleadings, and prosecutes this appeal for a review of these rulings.

The resistance on the part of the city to the payment of the sum claimed rests chiefly upon the contention that the contract with plaintiff for these 54 volumes of the ordinances was…