Cook v. Town of Putnam

This suit was brought by .appellants, L. J. Cook and W. M. Whitlock, for themselves as owners and operators of a water system in the town of P-utnam, Tex., and for and in behalf of other resident taxpayers of said town similarly situated, against the mayor and aldermen of the town of Putnam. The appellants filed their petition praying for an injunction forbidding said officials from carrying out certain con-; tracts theretofore made, and from issuing and selling waterworks bonds voted at a bond election on January 9, 1925. The appellants complain of the officials of said city entering into…