City of Arkansas City v. Turner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an original action in mandamus to require the state auditor to register a proposed issue of bonds to pay for certain internal improvements in Arkansas City. The plaintiff is a city of the second class, having taxable property within its limits aggregating $11,905,520 in assessed value; the city’s aggregate bonded debt is $2,238,717.21, of which sum $1,576,046.77 is for improvements to be paid for eventually by the property particularly benefited thereby, and the remainder, $662,670.44, binds the city at large and is to be paid by…