Hill v. City of Pineville

CAMMACK, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves the validity of a bond issue voted by the City of Pineville. The sole question is whether or not the City is confronted with an emergency within the meaning of Section 158 of our Constitution.

*777Pineville is a city of the fourth class. Section 158 of the Constitution prohibits a city of that class from creating an indebtedness in excess of five per cent of the assessment of taxable property therein next before the last assessment previous to the incurring of the indebtedness, “unless in case of emergency, the public health or safety should so require.”…