Foresman v. Gregg Township

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

Gregg Township, Union County, is a township of the second class, of which David W. Jamison, George W. Robinson and Chester C. Fisher were the supervisors in 1926 and William C. Foresman et al., the plaintiffs, were resident taxpayers therein. On May 12th, 1926, the supervisors entered into a written contract with Loder & Sharp, Inc., of Philadelphia, for the purchase of a Monarch five-ton caterpillar tractor at the price of $4,500, for use upon the township’s highways, and in payment therefor gave a township note payable in one year. Five days later the contract…