Victora v. Village of Muscoda

The following opinion was filed May 17, 1938:

Fairchild, J.

Certain taxpayers of the village of Mus-coda complain that the village officers have attempted to enter into a contract for the purchase of a Diesel-engine gen-*457eratmg plant without complying with the provisions of sec. 61.55, Stats., which provides:

“All contracts for the performance of any work or the purchase of any materials, in any such village, exceeding five hundred dollars, shall be let by the village board to the lowest bidder in such manner as they may prescribe.”

For several years the village had been engaged in the power…