Beers v. City of Watertown
South Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Codington County. Hon. William M. Skinner, Judge. Action by J. H. Beers, against the City of Watertown, South Dakota, a municipal corporation, A. T. Hopkins as Mayor, Brownie Mather, as City Auditor of the City of Watertown, and P. W. Reed and others as Aldermen and members of the City Council of the City of -Watertown, to enjoin and restrain the issuance of bonds of said city to furnish funds to provide the city with an electric plant to furnish…
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Codington County. Hon. William M. Skinner, Judge. Action by J. H. Beers, against the City of Watertown, South Dakota, a municipal corporation, A. T. Hopkins as Mayor, Brownie Mather, as City Auditor of the City of Watertown, and P. W. Reed and others as Aldermen and members of the City Council of the City of -Watertown, to enjoin and restrain the issuance of bonds of said city to furnish funds to provide the city with an electric plant to furnish electricity for municipal, industrial, and domestic purposes. From an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint,…
1Opinion of the CourtWhiting, J.
Appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to a complaint. Defendant city had voted to furnish funds so that its council might provide the city with an electric plant to furnish electricity for municipal, industrial, and domestic purposes ; and this action- was brought to restrain the issuance of such -bonds and to restrain s-uchi-council- from-appropriating any of the money from these bonds for' certain purposes for which it was alleged defendants intended to use same.
Three separate and'distinct grounds for enjoining the issuance of the bonds are urged on this appeal: (a) That the question…
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