Esch v. Forster

On Rehearing.

Sebring, Circuit Judge.

After an opinion and judgment was filed in this case on January 20, 1936, a rehearing was granted.' Pursuant thereto, the Court has carefully reconsidered the briefs and record herein, and now renders its opinion thereon.

• This is a class suit brought by J. P. Esch, and others, in their own right and in behalf of all other taxpayers within a special taxing district to require an accounting and a return of taxes alleged to have been illegally collected by certain of the defendants acting as administrative officers under color of defective or…