Roe v. Roosevelt Water Conservation District

The object of this snit is to test the legality of the action of the district’s officers in accepting tax anticipation warrants from the purchasers thereof, or their assigns, in payment of their district taxes.

The plaintiff is the owner and holder of one of 2,200 $1,000 bonds of the district upon which the interest is delinquent for the two fiscal years of 1931 and 1932. He- claims that the practice pursued by the officers of the district in accepting tax anticipation warrants, issued and sold for the purpose of operation and maintenance, for district taxes levied and assessed for specific…