Coates v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiff, who is a resident freeholder and tax-payer of the village of Sauk Eapids, brought this action in the district court for Bén-ion county, to restrain the defendants, who are the officers of the village of Sauk Eapids, from issuing the bonds provided for in Sp. Laws, 1887, c. 137. A demurrer to the complaint having been overruled •by Collins, J., judgment was entered for plaintiff, from which the de.fendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtGilpillaN, C. J.
An act of the legislature approved February 25, 1887, (Sp. Laws, 1887, c. 137,) entitled “An act to authorize the village of Sauk Eapids, in the county of Benton, to issue bonds in aid •of the improvement of the Mississippi river at said Sauk Eapids,” provided : “Section 1. The village council of the village of Sauk Eap-ids, in Benton county, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said village, to the amount not exceeding the sum of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of aiding in the construction ■of a dam across the Mississippi river at said Sauk Eapids, and for the…
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