Taylor v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 298, Jan. T., 1917, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1917, No. 3335, dismissing bill in equity for an injunction, in case of Walter R. Taylor, Appellant, v. City of Philadelphia, Thomas B. Smith, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia; George E. Datesman, Director Department of Public Works of the City of Philadelphia; Board of Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia, naming them; John Ashhurst, Librarian of the Free Library of…
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Appeal, No. 298, Jan. T., 1917, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1917, No. 3335, dismissing bill in equity for an injunction, in case of Walter R. Taylor, Appellant, v. City of Philadelphia, Thomas B. Smith, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia; George E. Datesman, Director Department of Public Works of the City of Philadelphia; Board of Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia, naming them; John Ashhurst, Librarian of the Free Library of Philadelphia; Horace Trumbauer, Architect, and John P. Gill and Kernode F. Gill, trading as John Gill & Sons,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Frazer,
Plaintiff, a resident and taxpayer of Philadelphia, filed his bill for an injunction against the City of Philadelphia, the trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the firm of John Gill & Sons, contractors, and others, to restrain the execution of a contract for the construction of a public library. The court below sustained a demurrer to the bill and this appeal followed.
The city, in conjunction with the trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia, advertised for bids for the construction of a new library building, the specifications *462containing a clause…
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