Corwin v. Campbell

This action is brought by the plaintiffs, as tax-payers of the town of New Fane, to restrain the execution and delivery of bonds of the town in which they are taxable inhabitants, to aid in the construction of the Lake Ontario Shore railroad. As tax-payers of the town they can only be injured by an unauthorized issuing of the bonds through the circumstance that it will impose an illegal debt upon the town which they may be eventually liable to be taxed to pay; and it is to prevent the possibility of being subjected to that injury, in case taxation should have to be resorted to for the purpose…