Jacksonville Independent School Dist. v. Devereux

On March 26, 1926, Frank Devereux and a number of other residents and property owners of Jacksonville independent school district filed an application for an injunction restraining the board of trustees of that district from enforcing the collection of a school tax for the year 1925. The petitioners alleged that no tax levy had been made by the board of trustees for that year, and that a board of equalization illegally appointed had arbitrarily raised the assessed values of the property of the petitioners. The petition concluded with the following prayer for relief:

“The premises considered,…