Campbell v. Board of Commissioners

Niblack, C. J.—

Complaint by William B. Campbell against The Board of Commissioners of the State Soldiers and Sailors Monument, organized under the act of March 3d, 1887 (Acts 1887, p. 30), to enjoin such commissioners from expending for all purposes a sum greater than two hundred thousand dollars out of the state treasury in the erection of the monument which they are required to build.

*592The complaint averred that the commissioners had adopted a design and plan for the monument, based upon an estimate which will absorb the entire amount of $200,000, appropriated by the act of 1887, referred to,…