City of Leavenworth v. Wilson

*75The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J. :

A resident taxpayer of the city of Leavenworth secured an injunction restraining the municipality from issuing water-works bonds in the sum of $400,000, under sections 8, 10, 11 and 12 of chapter 82, Laws of 1897, and section 9 of that chapter as amended by section 1 of chapter 107 of the Laws of 1901 (Gen. Stat. 1901, §§660-664). At the time the injunction proceedings were commenced an election had been held, at which a proposition to vote the bonds had carried, but the securities had not been issued. The election proclamation stated the…