Wickliffe v. City of Greenville

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Miller.

Beversing.

At an election held in the city of Greenville, a city of the fifth class, on November 2nd, 1915, more than two-thirds of the voters thereof authorized the city council to issue bonds to the amount of $22,400.00 for the purpose *530of rebuilding and reconstructing the public streets of tbe city. Bonds to that amount were duly issued and sold for more than their par value, and the proceeds thereof were •paid into the treasury of the city.

On April 3rd, 1916, the city council adopted an ordinance entitled “An ordinance to assist in. the…