Stenzel v. Yates

Mr. Presiding Justice Scheineman

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs, L. P. Stenzel and R. H. Swoboda, as taxpayers of Alexander county, filed this suit alleging that the defendants, S. N. Yates, Guy Coleman and Andrew Serbian, have control of the general fund of Alexander county, in a confidential and fiduciary capacity, and prayed an injunction restraining the said defendants from making “any clandestine, secret, illegal contract, ” from making any “illegal or improper expenditures” from said fund, and from doing any of a list of other “illegal” acts.

The complaint also alleges…