Noble v. City of Vincennes

This was an action to enjoin the city from making a donation to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars in aid of The Vincennes and Cairo Railroad’Company. The complaint shows that the plaintiffs are resident tax-payers of the city and liable to be taxed to pay the amount of said donation, if made, and for all city purposes. It is then alleged that on the nth day of December, 1871, there was presented to the common council of said city a petition, by which the council was requested to make the donation in the sum aforesaid, payable as follows: fifty thousand dollars when the said railroad…