Schaeffer v. Bonham

This was a bill filed to enjoin the Auditor from levying a tax, and the county clerk from extending it on the collector’s books, on the property in a township in Wayne county, to pay the interest on certain bonds issued in the name of the township to aid in the construction of a railroad.

The bill alleges that the law authorizing the election, and the amendatory law authorizing the bonds to be issued, are unconstitutional and void; and that the election was not held in conformity to the law conferring the power to hold it, and no power was thereby conferred to issue the bonds. The court below…