Jordan v. Andrus
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Custer County; C. II. Loud, Judge. Injunction bjr W. A. Jordan and others against W. W. Andrus and others. From an order dissolving an interlocutory injunction, plaintiffs appeal.
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Appeal from District Court, Custer County; C. II. Loud, Judge. Injunction bjr W. A. Jordan and others against W. W. Andrus and others. From an order dissolving an interlocutory injunction, plaintiffs appeal. It. is claimed by appellants that the indebtedness of the city on July 1, 1901, was $22,500. It certainly cannot be successfully maintained in a court of review that cash on hand and other available assets of the city in the nature of uncollected and collected taxes representing so much money cannot be deducted from such indebtedness or at least from that part of such indebtedness as is…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pigott
This is an appeal from an order dissolving an interlocutory injunction.
*25On July 15, 1901, the plaintiffs, as taxpaying inhabitants of Miles City, Montana, commenced an action, the object of which is perpetually to enjoin the defendants, as mayor, aider-men, and clerk of the city, from signing, sealing, issuing or delivering certain “City Hall Bonds” for $8,000, voted at an election held on April 1, 1901.
One of the grounds upen which the injunction is prayed is that the proposed issue of bonds would create an indebtedness in excess cf three per centum of the total assessed value of the taxable…
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