Searle v. Abraham
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mahaska District Court. Action for an injunction to restrain the defendant city of Oskaloosa, and the other defendants as mayor and city council of the defendant city, from entering into a contract with the Edison Electric Light Company for lighting the streets of the city. A temporary injunction was granted, and after-wards the same was on motion dissolved. From the order dissolving the injunction the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Ch. J\
The plaintiff avers that he is a citizen and tax-payer of the city of Oskaloosa; that the city has made a *508provision for lighting its streets by a contract with the Oskaloosa Gas Company, which is still in force, and that the city has exhausted its power for lighting its streets; that, notwithstanding such fact, the officers of the city are about to enter into a contract with the Edison Electric Light Company to light the same lamps, and that by such contract the city will increase its indebtedness beyond the constitutional limit. The defendants deny that there is any contract in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Dodge v. WoolseySupreme Court of the United States · 1856
- Dodge v. City of Council BluffsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1881
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