Clark v. Luzerne Borough

Citations

• 196 Pa. 210
• 46 A. 377
• 1900 Pa. LEXIS 504

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Boroughs—Increase of debt —Equity—Injunction.</p> <p>The Supreme Court will not interfere with an order granting and continuing a preliminary injunction to restrain a borough from issuing bonds, where the bill and the injunction affidavits aver that legal notice of the election authorizing the issue of bonds had not been given, and that the tickets used at the election contained no statement of the purpose and amount of the proposed increase of debt, were not deposited in the proper box, were not numbered, and that no voting list of electors voting on the question had been kept by the election officers, and further that the ordinance authorizing the election had not been passed at a legal meeting of the council, that its title was misleading, and that it had not been published according to law.</p>