Hudson v. Higgins

This appeal challenges the validity of act 146 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1927, as not having been passed by the requisite majority of the Legislature, and the authority of the State Debt Board to issue the notes or bonds, because no specific appropriation of the money to be raised by the bond issue was made therein authorizing its use or expenditure.

Appellant, a taxpayer of Jefferson County, brought suit in the Pulaski Chancery Court for an injunction against the State Debt Board to prevent the issuance and sale of the notes or bonds provided for in said act. It was alleged that…