Cooper v. Leslie Salt Co.

I concur in part and dissent in part. On the basis of the complaints in these proceedings and in the companion' ease, there arise suspicions that all is not well with the management of the Estero community. But suspicions, however strong, are inadequate for pleading purposes. Thus I concur in much of the majority opinion.

Many of the problems giving rise to plaintiff’s dissatisfac*639tion would dissolve if the people of the district had been, as everyone should be in a democratic society, the masters of their own destiny. Here the effective political and economic power rests not with the residents…