Case Name: STATE EX REL. BLACK v. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Court: Ohio Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1895-01
Citations: 13 Ohio C.C. 603
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE EX REL. BLACK v. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Judges: Before Smith, Swing and Cox, JJ.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the circuit courts of Ohio
Volume: 13
Pages: 603–604

Head Matter:
(First Circuit — Hamilton Co., O., Circuit Court,
Jan’y Term, 1895.)
Before Smith, Swing and Cox, JJ.
STATE EX REL. BLACK v. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Public contract — Right to reject bids — Where advertisement for bids for public work is required, the board of education has power by the statute to refect bids.
G. W. Baler and Bromwell & Bruce, for relator.
O. B. Matthews, contra.

Opinion:
Smith, J.
We held that an alternative writ of mandamus should not be allowed in this case, for the reason that, by the advertisement made for bids, the right was reserved to the board "to reject any and all bids, " and that in fact it did reject the bid of the relator, and he has no right to the contract. If an advertisement was necessary, the statute, section 3988, gives the board such right to reject. If it is not required, it had the right to make such stipulations as it chose. In this the case differs from those decided in 19 Ohio St., 97, and 81 Ohio St., 415, in which the statutes under which the proceedings were had required the contract to be made with the lowest bidder. Writ refused.