Legal Opinion
Bybee v. City of Minneapolis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided June 14, 1940No. 32,557PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hilton, Justice.
This is a taxpayer’s suit to restrain permanently certain officials of Minneapolis from issuing $1,774,000 worth of municipal bonds. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the complaint.
The congress of the United States in August, 1937, enacted the Rivers and Harbors Act. One of the provisions authorized the appropriation' of money for the improvement of the Mississippi River so that the channel would be navigable within the corporate limits of Minneapolis. In March, 1940, the city council adopted a resolution requesting the board of estimate and taxation to issue and sell…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. Illinois ex rel. Drainage CommissionersSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Lamprey v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1893
- State ex rel. City of Minneapolis v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Visina v. FreemanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1958
- Minneapolis Gas Co. v. ZimmermanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1958
- Northern Natural Gas Co. v. County of Blue EarthSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1951
- In Re RollinsCourt of Appeals of Minnesota · 2007
- United States v. Reserve Mining CompanyDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1974
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