Aquamsi Land Co. v. City of Cape Girardeau

The appellant corporation, a freeholder and taxpayer in Cape Girardeau, a city of the third class operating under the commission form of government, brought this suit in March, 1937, to enjoin the city, its mayor and commissioners from expending the proceeds of a $55,000 bond issue voted by its citizens in January, 1937, in the construction of a recreational and community center, and for other purposes incident thereto. No temporary injunction was prayed. The project was to be constructed with the aid of an appropriation of $164,853 from the Federal Works Progress Administration. After a…