Kaufman v. Philadelphia

Per Curiam,

This is an appeal from the refusal to issue a preliminary injunction.

Plaintiff, a taxpayer, brought a bill in equity to restrain defendants from acting under an ordinance, dated February 23, 1928, transferring, from the department of supplies to the department of public safety, an appropriation made by the city council to purchase uniforms for policemen and firemen. In the bill it is alleged that the uniforms in question are “articles of personal property for the use of” the departments to which the men requiring them belong; hence, under the Act of March 19, 1925, P. L. 56, such…