Court Opinion

ID: 9642814
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 18:09:46.141621+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:55:42.688034
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion by
Me. Chief Justice Jones:
I would dismiss the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff has been guilty of laches and has thereby lost the right to invoke equity’s aid for the redress of his alleged grievances.
The complainant attended meeting after meeting of the Authority Board for the better part of a year preceding the consummation of the contract for the sale of the Authority bonds for the construction of the improvement and knew, or should have known, the questions demanding the Authority’s undelayed solution. His complaint notably fails to aver any facts that would support a finding of fraud on the part of the Authority and the underwriter of the bonds. Nor do Ms averments support a finding that the action of the Authority in the premises was not in the best interest of the municipality which it was organized to serve.
I think it is particularly regrettable that a public improvement of such magnitude and of such undisputed urgency can be stalled through court procedures by a disgruntled complainant on mere generalities and his own conclusions of both fact and law.