Alexander v. McInnis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for St. Louis county against tbe county commissioners, county treasurer and county auditor of that county, to restrain them from executing and selling state rural highway bonds for the benefit of state rural highway No. 4. From an order, Fesler, J., sustaining defendants’ demurrer to the complaint, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Dibell, C.
This action is brought to restrain the defendants, who are the commissioners, treasurer and auditor of St. Louis county, from issuing bonds for the construction of a state rural highway. The defendants demurred to the complaint. The demurrer was sustained. The plaintiff appeals from the order sustaining it.
The plaintiff is a property owner and a taxpayer in the city of Duluth. The state rural highway, for which it is proposed to issue bonds, is wholly within St. Louis county. The plaintiff owns no land specially benefited by the highway.
The statutory authority for the construction…
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