Fischer Auto & Service Co. v. City of Cincinnati

Citations

• 16 Ohio N.P. (n.s.) 369
• 26 Ohio Dec. 103
• 1914 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 60

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Specifications Upon Which Bids Are Ashed— Must Permit of Competition in a Practical YVay — Purchase of an Automobile Enjoined — Where Specifications Made. Impracticable Bids from More than One Company.</p> <p>1. The provisions contained in Sections 3811, 4328 and 4371, relating to</p> <p>specifications for' and the letting of public contracts by municipalities require that the specifications upon which bids are invited shall permit of general compensation in the practical and commercial sense.</p> <p>2. The carrying out of a contract for the purchase of an automobile for</p> <p>municipal use will be enjoined where the specifications are so drawn as to prevent compliance therewith except by one concern, unless compliance is attained by the purchase and assembling of automobile parts from different factories and the production in that manner of an unknown machine at a cost possibly prohibitive.</p>