Milligan v. Richland Independent School District

TIREY, Justice.

This cause is a direct attack upon the action of the Board of Equalization of the Richland School District of Navarro County, Texas, because plaintiffs contend that their rendition for taxes for the year 1961 were arbitrarily raised 140% “across the board”; deliberately, arbitrarily and without notice to them that their taxes had been raised. The suit was filed by Alf D. Mil-ligan and 89 other citizens and taxpayers in the school district. The Court, without hearing any evidence, sustained two separate Pleas in Abatement, 6 Special Exceptions and a Plea of Misjoinder and gave…