District Court, D. New Jersey January 17, 1908 (Perkins v. Newark Board of Education)

LANNING, District Judge.

I have reached the conclusion in this case that judgment must be entered on the special verdict in favor of the defendant. I think the defendant had no power to enter into a contract with the plaintiff to prepare plans for a building that would cost $400,000, or more, when only $200,000 had been appropriated “for the purchase of high school sites, the procuring of plans