Devine v. Freedom Newspapers, Inc.

This is an action to have a contract declared null and void, and to restrain the respondent city and its officers from paying out any city funds in connection therewith. General demurrers to the complaint were sustained without leave to amend, and the plaintiff has appealed from the judgment which followed.

The admitted facts are as follows. The appellant is a taxpayer in Santa Ana, a city of the fifth class with its fiscal year beginning and ending July 1. The Independent is a weekly newspaper published in Santa Ana. The Register, owned by *666the defendant corporation, is a daily newspaper…