Pennington v. Gilbert

On October 5th, 1924, the City Council of Havre de Grace, a municipal corporation, duly passed a resolution directing the Mayor, Oity Treasurer, and City Clerk to put thirty-two hundred dollars of the city’s funds into the sinking fund of said city to draw interest at four per cent., and to await the demand and requirement -of the payment of the Havre de Grace Water Company’s water bill for'the years 1923 and 1924.

This order was not carried out, and on February 17, 1925, the four appellees, who constitute a majority of said Oity Council, filed a petition, verified by affidavit, in the Circuit…