Hopper v. Fagan
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; J. E. Martineau, Chancellor; STATEMENT OP PACTS. E. M. Fagan, a citizen and taxpayer of the State, brought suit in equity against Ira C. .Hopper, as Secretary of State, and the Union Acoustical Company, of St. Louis, Mo., to enjoin them from carrying out a contract for the improvement of the acoustics in the hall of the House of Eepresentatives.
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Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; J. E. Martineau, Chancellor; STATEMENT OP PACTS. E. M. Fagan, a citizen and taxpayer of the State, brought suit in equity against Ira C. .Hopper, as Secretary of State, and the Union Acoustical Company, of St. Louis, Mo., to enjoin them from carrying out a contract for the improvement of the acoustics in the hall of the House of Eepresentatives. The defendants filed an answer to the complaint, and the plaintiffs then demurred to the answer. Subsequently, Allen Kennedy and Jas. E. Wood, also citizens and taxpayers, filed a complaint against the same…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). It appears from the allegations of the complaint that the act under consideration did not receive a majority of two-thirds of both houses of the General Assembly. Therefore, it is c1aimed that the a.c+ is in violation of art. 5, § 31, of the Constitution of 1874, which provides, in substance, that no appropriation of money shall be made except to raise means for defraying the necessary expenses of government except by a majority of two-thirds of both houses of the General Assembly.
In State v. Sloan, 66 Ark. 575, the eonrt held that an appropriation for building a…
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