Koch v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JosusoN, Circuit Judge. Tbe complaint charges that divers persons therein named as defendants, constituting tbe library board and tbe museum board of tbe city of Milwaukee, acting as a joint body and not as separate boards, advertised for plans and specifications for a building to be constructed for tbe use of tbe public library and tbe public museum of tbe city of MiVwcm-kee¡ without any resolution having…
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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JosusoN, Circuit Judge. Tbe complaint charges that divers persons therein named as defendants, constituting tbe library board and tbe museum board of tbe city of Milwaukee, acting as a joint body and not as separate boards, advertised for plans and specifications for a building to be constructed for tbe use of tbe public library and tbe public museum of tbe city of MiVwcm-kee¡ without any resolution having been passed by tbe common council providing for tbe erection of snob building, and it was insisted that such joint…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNey, J.
The point decisive of this appeal is whether, ■after the five sets of plans and specifications mentioned had !been procured for the library-museum budding by the members of the library board of trustees and the museum board ■of trustees, acting jointly, though without any lawful authority, and had been reported to the common council, that hody could adopt their acts in procuring the same, and’pro-wide for the payment of the costs and expenses thereof, and <direct the mailing of a contract by the board of public works for the erection and construction of such building ae-*226cording to the plans…
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