Carr v. Fenstermacher

This is a suit in equity to decree the invalidity of an ordinance authorizing the city of Sargent to buy a Diesel engine and other equipment for the improvement of an electric light and power plant already in operation and to enjoin the municipal officers and the seller of the equipment from performing a contract of purchase into which they entered. Plaintiffs are Stanley V. Carr and Edward Williams, who plead that they are resident taxpayers and users of electricity furnished by means of the plant; that the city was without power to enact the ordinance or to enter into the contract of…