Tousley v. Leach

Taxpayer’s action to restrain the city of Minneapolis and its officers from paying the expenses of certain of its aldermen and other officers in attendance upon a meeting of the Mississippi Yalley Association at St. Louis in November, 1928, and of the Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington, D. C. and a meeting of the Asphalt Association at New Orleans, both in December, 1928. Plain-' tiff’s motion for a temporary injunction was denied and he appeals.

Payment of the expenses was to be from moneys derived from taxation, and the claim of the plaintiff is that the purpose for which they were to…