McDonald v. Fraleigh

The complainants are alleged to be resident owners of real estate and tax payers of Madison County. The defendants are county commissioners and' trustees of county bonds of Madison County. The objects of the suit are, primarily to restrain the expenditure by the defendants of funds derived from the sale of county bonds, issued for the purpose of constructing “paved, macadamized or other hard-surfaced highways,” in the construction of sand-clay roads, the theory of the bill being that sand-clay roads are not paved, macadamized or other hard-surfaced roads and therefore such use of the funds is…