Callaghan v. Town of Alexandria

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

This suit is brought by the plaintiff as a citizen, voter and tax-payer of the city of Alexandria, Louisiana, enjoining the municipal authorities of said city from issuing seventy-one thousand dollars in bonds, for the purposes of sewerage, paving, etc., and the levying of a five-mill special tax, and the setting aside of three and one-half mills of the general fund tax of the city, in order to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds.

On the issues thus stated, the caso went to trial in the District Court, and a…