Bryan v. Voss

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Reversing.

By an act approved March 1, 1910, it was provided in substance that any city of the second class may become organized and be governed under the commission form of government. The act does not become operative in any city until a majority of the legal votes east at the election therein provided for shall he in favor of it. An election was held in the city of Newport under the act, *423and the proposition carried. Thereupon these suits were brought to enjoin the organization of the city government nnder the act; one by a tax payer suing on behalf…