Baker v. Milam

The complainants, as taxpayers of Decatur County, filed their original injunction bill in the Chancery Court to restrain the defendant from issuing $100,000 in bonds for the erection and equipment of sehoolhouses in Decatur County. The quarterly County Court of said County, by proper resolution, authorized the issuance and sale of the bonds.

Three resolutions were introduced and passed by the Court. The first resolution was the authorization of the bonds; the second designated two sehoolhouses to be built, one at Scotts Hill and one at Parsons, Tennessee; and the third resolution undertook to…