Brady v. Moulton
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Faribault county against the village of Winnebago City and E. C. Moulton as its treasurer. From the order of Severance, J., sustaining the demurrer of defendants, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
Action to enjoin the payment of village “water bonds,” on the ground that the act authorizing their issue (Sp. Laws 1891, c. 175) was void, because within the inhibition of the constitutional amendment of 1881, prohibiting the enactment of any special or private laws “granting corporate powers or privileges except to cities.” The defendant village was incorporated under Sp. Laws 1874, c. 7. The village contends that — First, independently of the act of 1891, it had authority, under its original charter, to issue these bonds as incident to its granted power to make, construct, and operate…
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