Arnhold v. Klug

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The plaintiff, a resident taxpayer of the city of Hays, brought this action to enjoin certain of the city officers and an electric-light company from entering into a certain contract. He alleged that the city has and operates a waterworks system costing about $50,000, the pumps and engines of which with their installation cost at least $9500, the engines having power sufficient to pump 50,000 gallons of water an hour and the pumps when working at full efficiency being sufficient to throw that amount of water an hour into the mains and tanks of…