Kansas Electric Power Co. v. City of Eureka

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was a taxpayers’ suit to test the validity of a bond election and proceedings incidental thereto, under which the defendant city seeks to issue $65,000 in general obligation bonds to raise funds to construct a building designed to house engines and machinery for generating electricity and to construct an electric distribution system.

This case is a companion of No. 32,327, wherein these same taxpayers have challenged the legality of a contract between the city and Fairbanks, Morse and Company, for the purchase of electric generating…