Burner Service & Combustion Controls Co. v. City of Minneapolis

Yetka, Justice.

Burner Service and Combustion Controls Company, Inc. (Burner), appeals from a judgment entered on January 22, 1976, pursuant to an order by the district court granting the motion for summary judgment of the city of Minneapolis and denying Burner’s motion for summary judgment. We reverse.

The issue presented in this appeal is whether the city attorney is, as a matter of law, without authority to bind the city to a stipulation of settlement with a condemnee, while acting pur suant to a resolution of the city council directing him to “take all necessary steps to prepare for,…