Kitchel v. Board of Commissioners

Certain taxpayers residing in Union county sought to enjoin the board of commissioners from proceeding to let the contract for the erection of, and from erecting, a court-house for the use of the county.

*541An injunction was asked upon two independent grounds: 1. It was alleged, in substance, that there was no necessity for the erection of a new court-house, because the county already had one that was in all respects suitable, safe and convenient, and fully adequate to accommodate all the public offices and business of the county for fifteen or twenty years to come, and that the proceedings of…