McGuire v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 691, Miscellaneous Docket No. 2,1914. Original Bill in Equity by Frederick T. McGuire, a citizen and a taxpayer of the City of Philadelphia, in his own behalf and in behalf of such citizens and taxpayers of said city as may join herein, v. The City of Philadelphia, a Municipal Corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of the first class, and Rudolph Blankenburg, Mayor, John M. Walton, Controller, and William McCoach, Treasurer of the said City.
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No. 691, Miscellaneous Docket No. 2,1914. Original Bill in Equity by Frederick T. McGuire, a citizen and a taxpayer of the City of Philadelphia, in his own behalf and in behalf of such citizens and taxpayers of said city as may join herein, v. The City of Philadelphia, a Municipal Corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of the first class, and Rudolph Blankenburg, Mayor, John M. Walton, Controller, and William McCoach, Treasurer of the said City. Taxpayer’s bill in equity to restrain the holding of an election. On March 30, 1914, the following decree was entered and subsequently the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
By an ordinance of the select and common councils of *310the City of Philadelphia, approved by the mayor February 21, 1914, the corporate authorities of the municipality Signified their desire to increase the indebtedness of the city in the sum of $12,900,000, and it was directed that an election be held on March 31, 1914, for the purpose of obtaining the assent of the electors of the city to the said proposed increase of its indebtedness. This bill, of which we took original jurisdiction, in connection with another filed by the same complainant — No. 690,…
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