Erickson v. King

Loring, Chief Justice.

This is a taxpayer’s suit to restrain the state auditor and the governor from carrying out the provisions of L. 1943, c. 500, authorizing the creation of a Metropolitan Airports. Commission, on the. ground that it violates Minn. Const, art. 9, §- 5, providing that “the state shall never contract any debts for works of internal improvements, or be a party in carrying on such works,” and art. 4, § 33, and art. 9, § 1, in that it attempts to authorize public taxation for a private purpose, and lend the credit of the state in aid of a corporation in contravention of art. 9,…