City of Beaumont v. Matthew Cartwright Land & Improvement Co.

By virtue of an election held on the 7th day of August, 1917, the city council of the city of Beaumont issued municipal bonds in the sum of $100,000, the proceeds of the sale thereof to be used for the purpose of “acquiring and improving lands either within or without the limits of the city of Beaumont for public parks.” In order to ascertain the will of the people as to the location of the park thus to be acquired, this question was duly submitted to the qualified voters of the city, and the election resulted in favor of the “Cartwright site.” Accordingly the city purchased from the…