Municipal Corporation Cases Annotated: A Collection of All Cases Affecting Municipal Corporations Decided by the Courts of Last Resort in the United States, Volum 5Thomas Johnson Michie G.R.B. Michie & Company, 1901 |
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Side 46 - is approved. In the latter case, Mr. Justice Miller, speaking for the court, says: "The language of the constitution is that no city, etc., 'shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of its taxable property.' It shall not become indebted.
Side 244 - but the legislature shall provide by general laws for the organization of all corporations hereafter to be created. All general laws passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed.
Side 626 - James W. Hyde for plaintiff in error. Mr. AJ Hopkins for defendant in error. Mr. Justice McKenna, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court: The supreme court of the state based its decision on its opinions in the case of Danville v. Danville Water Co. 178
Side 723 - shall incur any indebtedness or liability, in any manner or for any purpose exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for it for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting at an election held for that purpose.
Side 723 - No county, city, town, township, board of education, or school district shall incur any indebtedness or liability, in any manner or for any purpose exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for it for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting at an election
Side 310 - The Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature where a state is a party, except between a state, and its citizens, or between a state and citizens of other states or aliens, in which latter cases it shall
Side 307 - United States in Congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting, or that hereafter may arise, between two or more states, concerning boundary, jurisdiction, or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following: Whenever the legislative or executive authority, or lawful agent, of any state, in controversy with another, shall present a petition
Side 721 - No county or other political or municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount in the aggregate exceeding five
Side 245 - Sec. 2. No such general law shall be passed by the legislature granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town or incorporated village, without first requiring the consent of a majority of the electors thereof.'
Side 436 - The words 'cash value,' whenever used in this act, shall be held to mean the usual selling price at the place where the property to which the term is applied shall be at the time of assessment, being the price which could be obtained therefor at private sale, and not at forced or auction sale.