Howard v. Town of Loyall

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

This suit was brought to test the validity of $17,000 of bonds proposed to be issued by the board of trustees of the town of Loyall, a municipal corporation of the sixth class.

The board of trustees of the town adopted an ordinance providing for an election to be held on November 7, 1939, at which was submitted to the voters the question whether an indebtedness should be incurred in the amount of $17,000 for the purpose of erecting a concrete bridge over the Cumberland river within the corporate limits of the town. At the election more than two-thirds…