Hendrix v. Fountain
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Monroe County; John D. Léigh, Judge. Bill by L. L. Hendrix, as a citizen and taxpayer of the county, to restrain M. M. Fountain, Judge of Probate, and Board of Revenue of Monroe county from issuing certain interest-bearing county warrants. Prom a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Monroe County; John D. Léigh, Judge. Bill by L. L. Hendrix, as a citizen and taxpayer of the county, to restrain M. M. Fountain, Judge of Probate, and Board of Revenue of Monroe county from issuing certain interest-bearing county warrants. Prom a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. Appellant, a taxpayer of Monroe county, filed this bill against appellees as members of the board of revenue of said county, seeking an injunction against the issuance and sale of $75,000 of interest-bearing warrants in settlement of an indebtedness previously incurred, as…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
From the foregoing statement of the case it appears that this appeal involves particularly a construction of see tion 3 of the Acts (Special Session) of 1920, p. 10. That section reads as follows:
“The said order shall recite £he amount of interest-bearing warrants then outstanding which are made payable during the tax year within which the warrants then authorized to be issued are made payable, and the aggregate amount of warrants outstanding at any time and payable during any tax year shall not exceed forty per cent, of the estimated revenues of the county during the tax year the warrants…
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