Village of Dwight v. Palmer

Citations

• 74 Ill. 295

Syllabus

<p>1. Contract — of milage officer with the trustees, prohibited. An officer of a village incorporated under the act July, 1872, in relation to cities and villages, is prohibited from making any contract with the trustees to do work for the village, to be paid for out of the treasury, and any such contract is void, and such officer will be entitled to no compensation for any thing he may do under such contract.</p> <p>2. Where a clerk of the board of trustees of an incorporated village contracted to publish certain^ ordinances for $300, which was rescinded before any work was done under it, and such officer then resigned his office, but the contract was never renewed after acceptance of his resignation : Held, that he was not entitled to compensation for any ordinances he may have published afterward, as it was done without authority.</p>