Helmkampf v. Wood

— This is an appeal from an assessment of damages on an injunction bond. The plaintiffs are property owners in the city of Jackson, Cape Girardeau county. In 1897 the municipal authorities of the city of Jackson provided by ordinances for the grading and improving of certain *228streets in front of the lots owned by the plaintiffs. The contract for the work was awarded to the defendant Wood. To prevent the execution of the contract and tbe work thereunder, the plaintiffs applied to the judge of the probate court of that county for an injunction on the ground principally that the city council had.…