Jackson v. City of Rome

Beck, Presiding Justice.

John H. Jackson et al., as citizens and taxpayers, brought suit against the City of Rome, seeking to restrain and enjoin the defendant from performing a contract made between the State Highway Board of Georgia and the defendant and from expending any. of the public funds of the city for the purchase of a right of way and for the payment of consequential and direct damages to all parties involved, by reason of the construction of a State highway through the city. The contract or resolution of the mayor and council, the carrying out of which the petitioners seek to have…