Watkins v. Ouachita Parish School Board

This is an injunction proceeding brought by a taxpayer, of Ouachita parish to prohibit the school board of that parish from anticipating the revenues to be derived from the levy of a special tax voted to establish a junior college, issuing certificates of indebtedness to be paid out of said tax and from pledging the tax, etc. There was judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appealed.

Act 173 of 1928 authorizes the parish school boards of the several parishes of the state, the parish of Orleans excepted, to create junior college districts, each district to comprise an entire parish and to create…