Menard v. Hood

This was a bill in equity, filed by appellants and a large number of other tax payers of Randolph county, to restrain the county judge, his associates and the county clerk from issuing, and the Tam aro a Coal and Railroad Company from receiving, $100,000 of the bonds of the county. The bill proceeds upon the ground that those officers had no power to issue the bonds. The bill alleges that the law and the terms imposed by the order and notice of the election for the subscription were not complied with, and hence the want of power. The entire scope of the bill is to restrain them from being…