Soukup v. Sell

delivered tlae opinion of tlie Court.

The complainant, a citizen and taxpayer of Johnson City, sued the mayor and hoard of commissioners of the city and W. N. Estes & Co. and Clark & Co., Inc., to enjoin the sale and delivery of refunding* notes and bonds hereafter mentioned.

It was charged in the bill, as amended, (1) that the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds was passed on a single reading, in a private room at the John Sevier Hotel, and the contract for the sale of the bonds was privately and secretly made without compliance with the general law, Code section 3707; and that in…