Thompson v. City of Marion

The ultimate question of law involved in these two cases being the same, it is deemed expedient to discuss only the facts relative to the Thompson case. The paramount question presented in both cases is whether the city of Marion, having acted pursuant to the authority conferred hy the provisions of the statute, and having duly found and declared the necessity for the establishment and maintenance of a police relief fund, thereby making operative in that city all the provisions of the statute effectuating the establishment and maintenance of such police relief fund, may by any subsequent…