Sugar v. City of Monroe

The opinion of the court was delivered ¡by

Monroe, J.

The plaintiffs, as citizens and taxpayers, and as owners and licensees of an opera house, in the City of Monroe, bring this suit to restrain the corporate authorities and “Torn Stewart & Co.” from using as a theatre a ¡school building belonging to the corporation. The facts disclosed ¡by the. evidence are: that, in October, 1898, the Mayor and Council submitted to the qualified taxpayers of Monroe a proposition to raise, by means of an issue of bonds, predicated upon a five-mill tax, the sum of $155,000, for the construction of certain…