Portis v. Board of Public Utilities, Lepanto

This appeal involves two cases consolidated by order of the chancery court.

In the first case (No. 3412 on docket of the lower court), appellee, T. B. Goldsby, a taxpayer of the town of Lepanto, sought an injunction against the said town and its mayor and aldermen to prevent them from issuing revenue bonds of the municipal sewer and water plants to pay for certain improvements thereon, the proposed action of the mayor and aldermen being alleged to be illegal because of the fact that these plants were in charge of a Board of Public Utilities created in pursuance of Act 95 of the General…