Mayor of Macon v. Huff
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal corporations. Officers. Contracts. Equity. Injunction and receiver. Before Judge Grice. Bibb County. At Chambers.
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Municipal corporations. Officers. Contracts. Equity. Injunction and receiver. Before Judge Grice. Bibb County. At Chambers. The following, taken in connection with the opinion, sufficiently reports this case : Complainants, in addition to the averments as to the main issue, alleged that Huff had, without authority, made and signed officially a note to the City Bank for $2303.00, on which the city had been sued ; that the city was not properly liable therefor, but if judgment should be recovered against it, the amount would prove a total loss, as Huff was insolvent. There was a prayer that if…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
Whilst Wm. A. Huff was mayor of the city of Macon and ex-officio president of council, he leased the city park for five years, paying in advance so much per annum therefor, and agreed to erect certain levies, build and repair fences, grade and gravel walks, and to put and keep the park in repair, and to cut and furnish wood to the poor from what is called the new park, for the sum of three thousand *224dollars per annnum for the term of five years. There were two contracts made at different- times and in respect to different bnt adjoining tracts of land, known as the park and the…
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