Public Ledger Co. v. Memphis

The bill in this cause shows that the Board of Eire and Police Commissioners of Memphis “ awarded a contract to do the public printing of the city (advertising, publishing ordinances, etc.) to the Scimitar Publishing Company for one year, at' a price not’ to exceed by more than $450 the price paid for public printing the year preceding, and were about to enter into the *78contract so awarded, and would do so unless enjoined;” and that complainant was a property owner and tax-payer of the- city, and had the right to enjoin the execution of such contract as illegal. The illegality of the contract…