Griffith v. Mayor of Vicksburg
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Warren county. Hon. E. N. Thomas, Chancellor. Suit by Eichard Griffith against the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Vicksburg. From a judgment dissolving the injunction and dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Warren county. Hon. E. N. Thomas, Chancellor. Suit by Eichard Griffith against the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Vicksburg. From a judgment dissolving the injunction and dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The validity of the proposed bonds is assailed upon a number of grounds, the first of which is that the meeting of the mayor and aldermen at which the preliminary ordinance looking to the issuance of said bonds was adopted, was held on the 1st day of January, which is a legal holiday…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Vicksburg, on the 1st day of January, 1912, by an ordinance authorized the issuance of bonds of the city to the amount of forty thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing a waterworks plant, to be operated by the city after the expiration of the franchise of the company now furnishing the city and its citizens with water, provided that the issuance thereof should be assented to by two-thirds of the qualified voters of the city, voting in an election ordered to be held for that purpose. This election was necessary, for the reason that these…
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