Missouri Electric Power v. City of Mountain Grove

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a motion to quash a citation for contempt. The citation was issued, the result of a violation of a temporary injunction granted by two judges of the County Court of Wright County whereby the city and city officials of Mountain Grove, and designated judges and clerks of election, were restrained from holding an election called for the purpose of submitting to the legal voters of the city the proposition to issue bonds for the purchase or construction of an electric light plant. Respondents assert the statutes authorizing the granting of a temporary…