Case Name: Demos Brothers General Contractors, Incorporated vs. Mayor of Springfield
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1947-12-09
Citations: 322 Mass. 176
Docket Number: 
Parties: Demos Brothers General Contractors, Incorporated vs. Mayor of Springfield.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 322
Pages: 176–177

Head Matter:
Demos Brothers General Contractors, Incorporated vs. Mayor of Springfield.
Hampden.
October 29, 1947.
December 9, 1947.
Present: Qua, C.J., Lummus, Ponan, Wilkins, & Williams, JJ.
L. C. Henin, for the petitioner.
S- A. Moynahan, City Solicitor, & C. D. Sloan, Assistant City Solicitor, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Wilkins, J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the respondent mayor to sign the contract with the . petitioner for water main construction which is the subject of our opinion in Demos Brothers General Contractors, Inc. v. Springfield, decided this day, ante, 171. The judge, after hearing, entered an order dismissing the petition, and the petitioner excepted. As the contract is valid without the mayor's signature, there is no occasion for a writ to issue. Amory v. Assessors of Boston, 306 Mass. 354, 357-358. Seney v. Board of Health of Northampton, 314 Mass. 272, 273.
Exceptions overruled.