Bednarski v. City of West Hammond
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill in chancery. Appeal from interlocutory order of Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard E. Burke, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1911.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Brown
delivered the opinion of the court.
The two points made in favor of the issuance of the injunction in this case were:
First, that the action of the defendants in making the contract enjoined was illegal because carrying the indebtedness of the City of West Hammond beyond the constitutional limit; and, second, that it was the incurring of an obligation payable within the fiscal year, for which no appropriation had or could now legally be made by the proper municipal body.
In this appeal the defendants, who are seeking the dissolution of the injunction by the reversal of…
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