Phelps v. City of Minneapolis

Appeal from a judgment entered on an order for judgment on the pleadings denying plaintiff a permanent injunction.

Plaintiff, a taxpayer of Minneapolis, sought to enjoin the city and its board of estimate and taxation from selling $1,150,000 of permanent improvement bonds on the ground that said bonds, if issued, will exceed the city’s limit of bonded indebtedness. Plaintiff demurred to the defendants’ answer, but at the hearing both parties made a motion for judgment on the pleadings and the case was submitted on such motions.

The full and true value of the taxable property in the city of…