Murrie v. Harper

These causes, in which bills for injunctions were filed by complainants as taxpayers on behalf of themselves and all other taxpayers, come to this court on appeals from decrees of the circuit court of Massac county permanently restraining the city of Metropolis from paying any further sums' of money to appellant out of the general treasury of said city for engineering services rendered or to be rendered by appellant in certain local improvements mentioned in the decrees.

On August 24, 1925, the city of Metropolis entered into an agreement with the appellant in which it was agreed that…