Sheets v. Armstrong

Opinion by

Me. Justice Schaffer,

This is a taxpayers’ bill to restrain the county commissioners and other public officials of Allegheny County from carrying out the terms of a contract entered into by a majority of the commissioners with the Sehenley Farms Company, providing for the purchase of a tract of ground as the site for a public auditorium. After hearing, the court below dismissed the bill. Two of the plaintiffs appeal.

At an election held June 26, 1928, a majority of the electors of the county voted in favor of the increase of its indebtedness in the sum of six million dollars for the…