Morris v. Tatum

J. M. Morris filed in Fulton superior court a petition against J. Henson Tatum, clerk of the city council of Atlanta, and the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, the surety on the bond of the clerk of the city council, alleging that in January, 1931, the general council of the City of Atlanta “did make and publish and enter, and the mayor thereof did approve the same, an illegal, unwarranted, and unauthorized and excessive appropriation to the Georgia Power Company, in the sum of *729$34,007.41,” a copy of the resolution by council being set out as an exhibit to the petition, “said…