State Consolidated Publishing Co. v. Hill

This action was brought by the State Consolidated Publishing Company, a corporation and a taxpayer of the city of Tucson, to recover for the city from Ben C. Hill, city attorney, and the mayor and common council and the auditor of said city, the sum of $2,000 paid to the said city attorney for special leg’al services rendered the city during the years 1928 and 1929; such sum being in addition to his regular annual salary of $4,200.

The theory upon which plaintiff seeks to recover said sum, as set forth in its complaint, is that the salary of $4,200 per annum, fixed by the city, is the official…