Wuebker v. Hopkins

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MAUCK, J.

Casper Wuebker as a taxpayer of the Village of Dover brought his action in the Common Pleas to restrain the Clerk of the Village from the payment of any of the funds of the Village to Gilbert Morgan for services rendered as Village Solicitor, It is alleged that his employment was illegal in that the ordinance providing for his employment and fixing the compensation thereof was not legally .passed by the Village Council. The petition recites that the Village Council consisted of six members, only three of whom voted for the ordinance; that three of them voted against it. and…