State ex rel. Taggart v. City of Kansas City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The city of Kansas City, Kan., was about to issue bonds to the amount of $100,000 for the purpose of improving its waterworks, and to the amount of $83,000 for the erection of a city hall, when an injunction was asked in the name of the state restraining such issuance as being forbidden by the statute (Laws 1909, ch. 62, § 6, Gen. Stat. 1909, § 1069) limiting the city’s bonded debt to five per cent of the assessed value of the property subject to taxation. An injunction was refused, and the state appeals.

The statute cited, so far as here…