Rogers v. Board of Education of the City School District

This case is heard on appeal from the court of common pleas of Hamilton county. Plaintiff, as a taxpayer, seeks to enjoin the defendants, the Auditor and Treasurer of Hamilton county, from collecting or attempting to collect an extra school tax levy of one-half mill on the tax duplicate of the City School District of the City of Cincinnati. Plaintiff contends that under the facts as set forth in the petition it ivas necessary that the question voted upon by the electors, to-wit, the right to levy an extra tax of one-half mill, receive sixty per cent, of the vote cast under and by virtue of an…