Hughes v. Stephens

This is a bill by property owners and taxpayers, residing within the corporate limits of 'the town of Haleyville, to enjoin the mayor and aldermen of the town from proceeding under certain ordinances to establish a system of sanitary sewerage, and fixing a charge against the property abutting on the streets along which such sewerage system is to be constructed, on the ground that the ordinances have not been legally adopted, and are therefore void.

The jurisdiction qf a court of equity to interfere in a proper case is well settled. Board of Com’rs of City of Mobile et al. v. Moore et al., 214…