Lien v. Northwestern Engineering Co.

SEACAT, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in equity against the defendants instituted by the plaintiffs as resident citizens and taxpayers of the state of South Dakota, in their own behalf and in behalf of all others similarly situated, to cancel as illegal and void a certain purported easement granted by the South Dakota State Cement Commission to the defendant, Northwestern Engineering Company, a private corporation, over the state property of the cement plant, and to enjoin and restrain the said Northwestern Engineering Company from entering on or in any way using or attempt ing to use said…