Bateman v. Board of Commissioners of Improvement District No. 1

McCulloch, C. j.

An improvement district has been duly formed in the city of Clarendon, Arkansas, for the purpose of constructing a system of waterworks and sewerage, and appellant, a citizen and owner of real property in said district, instituted this action in the chancery court against the board of improvement to restrain the latter from entering into a contract for the construction of said improvement at a cost in excess of 20 per centum of the value of real property in the district and from issuing bonds in excess of said amount. The chancery court sustained a demurrer to appellant’s…