Case Name: Mulcahy, a Taxpayer, etc., v. City of Akron et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1924-12-09
Citations: 111 Ohio St. 836
Docket Number: No. 18704
Parties: Mulcahy, a Taxpayer, etc., v. City of Akron et al.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Robinson, Jones, Matthias, Day, Allen and Conn, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 111
Pages: 836–836

Head Matter:
Mulcahy, a Taxpayer, etc., v. City of Akron et al.
Municipal corporations — Awarding public contracts — Conflict between state statutes and municipal charter — Statutes not violated in instant case.
(No. 18704
Decided December 9, 1924.)
Error to the Court of Appeals of Summit county.
Messrs. Gommins, Brouse, Englebeck & McDowell, and Messrs. Rockwell & Grant, for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Henry M. Hagelbarger, director of law, Messrs. Smoyer, \Glmedinst & Smoyer, and Messrs. Mather, Nesbitt & Wilkie, for defendants in error.

Opinion:
It is ordered and adjudged by thi-s court, that the judgment of the said Court of Appeals be and the same is hereby, affirmed for the reason that the record in this cause was ordered certified by this court under a misapprehension that it involved the question whether, in the matter of letting public contract where the provisions of a charter of a chartered city are in conflict with the statute applicable thereto, the provisions of the charter supersede the provisions of the statutes. The record disclosing that no provision of the statutes pertaining to the letting of public contract has been violated, there was no error in the judgment of the Court of Appeals, whatever reasons it may have assigned for such judgment.
Judgment affirmed.
Marshall, C. J., Robinson, Jones, Matthias, Day, Allen and Conn, JJ., concur.