Adams v. Bryant

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

Appellants, plaintiffs below, brought a taxpayers’ suit in which they sought injunctive relief against appellees, Light and Water Commissioners in the City of Clarksville. Appellants urged that City Ordinance No. 387, under which appellees were acting, was invalid; that certain expenditures made by appellees from surplus funds acquired in the utility operations, were unlawful; an accounting was sought from appellees, as well as a judgment against them, for particular payments hereinafter set out that had already been made, and the court was asked to enjoin and…