Garner v. City of Aurora

In an action for an injunction by taxpayers to prevent a city from cutting off their water supply for a violation of a garbage ordinance, the trial judge dismissed the petition after learning, outside of court, that the ordinance had been repealed. The petitioners appealed.

The plaintiffs brought an action for injunction against the City of Aurora, its mayor, councilmen, water commissioner, and chief of police, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, and alleged in their petition that they were residents, freeholders, electors, and taxpayers in the defendant city, and…