Hairgrove v. City of Jacksonville

These causes, consolidated here for opinion, present separate direct appeals from orders and a decree entered in the same cause of action, by the circuit court of Morgan county.

William N. Hairgrove, appellant in cause No. 23940, as a tax-payer of the city of Jacksonville, filed his bill on behalf of himself and all other tax-payers of that city, to enjoin the city of Jacksonville from issuing $420,000 mortgage certificates under section 9 of the Municipal Ownership act and from constructing and operating a municipal electric light and power plant, as proposed by an ordinance of that city. The…