State Ex Rel. Kellett v. Johnson

ATWOOD, J.'

Thayer is a city of the fourth class. It held an election on January 8, 1924, to test the sense of its qualified voters on a proposition to issue bonds to amount of $75,000 for the purpose of acquiring waterworks and an ice plant. It is conceded that when the election was held the city had a population of 1738, more than 450 of which number were qualified voters, that 300 votes were cast in favor of the proposition and 132 against it, and that the city’s as sessed valuation ascertained by the assessment next before the last assessment for State and county purposes previous to the…