Getzen v. Sumter County

In proceedings brought under the statute for that purpose, (Sec. 3296 et seq., Rev. Gen. Stats. 1920) the Circuit Court by decree validated a proposed issue of county bonds by the County Commissioners of Sumter County, for constructing hard surfaced highways in the count}'. Sec. 1531 et seq., Rev. Gen. Stats. 1920.

An appeal was taken by intervening taxpayers as allowed by the statute, and one of the contentions made here is that the count}' commissioners abused the authority to issue bonds conferred upon them by the statute, in that the amount of the bond issue, taken with the present bonded…