Long v. City of Duluth
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Charles A. Long, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis county, Stearns, J., made September 28, 1891, sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Charles A. Long, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis county, Stearns, J., made September 28, 1891, sustaining a demurrer to the complaint. This action was commenced by Louis H. Grieser, a resident and taxpayer of the City of Duluth, against the city and its Mayor, Treasurer, Comptroller, and Clerk, to enjoin it and them from executing or issuing its bonds for $800,000. The city was about to issue this amount of its bonds -to raise money for the construction of water and gas works to supply the city and its inhabitants with water and gas. The defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtDicKinson, J.
In the year 1883 the village of Duluth was a municipal corporation, having the powers conferred upon it by Sp. Laws 1881, ch. 11, and the more specific powers (as respects the subject here to be considered) conferred by Sp. Laws 1883, ch. 80. It will only be necessary to direct attention to subdivisions one (1) and four (4) of section three (3) of the latter act.
• In the year 1883 the village, by ordinance, entered into a contract with a corporation named the Duluth Gas & Water Company, — but which for brevity we will designate as the “Water Company,” — by the terms of which there was granted…
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