Fleming v. City of Nixa

BARRETT, Commissioner.

This is a case by taxpayers and voters, said to be representative of a class, seeking to enjoin the City of Nixa from issuing revenue bonds in the sum of $265,000 for the purchase or construction of a municipally owned electrical distribution system. By reason of the amount involved jurisdiction of the appeal is appropriately in this court. Missouri Power & Light Co. v. City of Bucklin, 349 Mo. 789, 163 S.W.2d 561.

Essentially the appellants’ claim is that the election authorizing, by a four-sevenths vote, the issuance of the bonds was illegal, “a nullity and void,” and…