Anderson v. Orient Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lyon District Court. — Hon. G. W. Wakefield, Judge. Action to enjoin the payment, and for the cancellation, of certain county bonds.' Decree for the plaintiffs, and the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The plaintiffs, five in number, being citizens and taxpayers of Lyon county, Iowa, “each for himself and for the benefit and use of all the taxpayers” of said county, brought suit in May, 1887, against George W. Bowers, as treasurer, T. C. Thompson, as auditor, and others, as members of the board of supervisors, of said county, representing that: “All *581the residents and taxpayers of said Lyon County, being more than a thousand persons, have a common and general interest in this suit, and are suffering damages by acts herein complained of, and sought to be enjoined, and said parties are so many…
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