Common Council of Trenton v. Shaw

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

The common council of Trenton, by resolution, authorized the committee of the fire department to advertise for proposals to furnish the city with a certain quantity of rubber hose. In answer to the advertisement certain bids were sent in, and the city authorities selected one of them which the Supreme Court held was not the lowest bid, and, on that account, vacated the proceedings.

In all the views expressed by the Supreme Court in this case we entirely concur, and the only difficulty in our disposition of the subject has arisen…