Griffin v. Powell

OPINION of the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

Appellee brought this action in the court below against the appellant, City of Somerset, its mayor and conncil-men, to prevent by injunction the city from being governed and its affairs conducted by the mayor and councilmen as provided by the statutes with respect to cities of the third class; it being averred in the petition that appellants were assuming the right to so conduct the city government under an act of the General Assembly approved March 16, 1910, by which it had been attempted to place the city in the third class.

It was also averred in…