 It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others: First, those granted in express words ; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers...  Selected Cases on Government and Administration - Page 194edited by - 1906 - 250 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 714 pages
...— not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied." Dillon Mun. Corp. § 55. The proposed corporate act of which complaint is made, and which the court... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 726 pages
...unless the municipal authorities possess, under the constitution, the right to exercise such powers. "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...against the corporation and the power is denied." (Dillon on Mun. Corp. — 4th ed. — sec. 87 ; City of Chicago v. Bloir, supra.} Clearly, under the... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1873 - 546 pages
...— not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence ol power is resolved by the courts against the corporation,...statute by which it is created is its organic act. Nbither the corporation, nor its officers, can do any act, or make any contract, or incur any liability,... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 550 pages
...— not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied. Of every municipality, the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the corporation... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 1096 pages
...suffice to defeat the presumption of such grant. "Any fair, reasonable doubt, concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied." 1 Dillon's Municipal Corporations, sec. 55. "All acts beyond the scope of the powers granted are void.... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 818 pages
...the duty of the courts to deny the power. " Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied." Dillon on Municipal Corporations, Vol. 1, Sec. 55. AFFIHMKD. BUEEOWS v. WADDELL AND SCITALLEK, 1. Replevin:... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 896 pages
...the duty of the courts to deny the power. " Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied." 1 Dill, on Mun. Corp., § 55. Judgment affirmed. SMALLEY v. GREENE. (Si Iowa, 241.) Attorney — public... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1240 pages
...Any fair, reasonable, substantial doubt concerning the existence or power is resolved by the _courts against the corporation, and the power is denied....organic act Neither the corporation nor its officers can dp any act, or make any contract, or incur any liability, not authorized thereby or by some legislative... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 956 pages
...— not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation,...statute by which it is created, is its organic act." 1 Dill. Mun. Corp. § 55, p. 173. These views are approved by the courts in the following cases: Spauldlng... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1230 pages
...Language purporting to define the powers of a municipal corporation is to be strictly construed, and any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence...against the corporation, and the power is denied. [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see Municipal Corporations, Cent Dig. || 145-147 ; Dec. Dig. 4. MUNICIPAL... | |
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