Hampton v. Hickey
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Dallas Chancery Court; Bnton O. Mahoney, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The complaint alleges that G. M. Hampton, the plaintiff, is a citizen and taxpayer of the city of Fordyce, which was organized into a special school district under the laws of the State of Arkansas providing for the organization of special school districts co-extensive with the territory of any incorporated city or town; that the Legislature, by an act approved April 26, 1905, authorized…
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Appeal from Dallas Chancery Court; Bnton O. Mahoney, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The complaint alleges that G. M. Hampton, the plaintiff, is a citizen and taxpayer of the city of Fordyce, which was organized into a special school district under the laws of the State of Arkansas providing for the organization of special school districts co-extensive with the territory of any incorporated city or town; that the Legislature, by an act approved April 26, 1905, authorized said special school district to borrow $15,000, but that it has undertaken to borrow $25,000, and, unless restrained,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts.) On the 26th day of April, 1905, the Legislature passed an act authorizing the special school district of Fordyce, in Dallas County, Arkansas, to borrow money to build and equip a suitable school building for said district, to mortgage any part or all of the real property of said district, and to issue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, not to exceed the sum of $15,000, under such conditions as to time and manner of payments as the school directors of said district may prescribe. Acts 1905, p. 508.
On the 6th day of May, 1905, at the same…
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