Tenney v. City of Madison

The following opinion was filed May 24, 1898:

Winslow, J.

This is an action in equity brought by the plaintiff, a taxpayer of the city of Madison, in his own behalf and on behalf of all other taxpayers, against the city, its mayor and clerk, to perpetually enjoin the city and its ofiicers from entering into a contract with the American Sanitary Engineering Company for the erection of certain sewage purification works in said city, and from issuing corporate bonds to pay for the same, on various grounds of alleged illegality. The action was commenced in the circuit court for Dane county, but…