Burnham v. Police Jury

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Provosty, J.

The 'School Board of the Parish of Claiborne having created a school district known as the Haynesville School District No. 11, and a tax having been voted in said district for'the use of the school therein, the plaintiffs, who are resident taxpayers of the district, bring this suit to have said tax decreed null and void.

The only grounds pressed upon our. attention are, first, that the School Board was without power to create said district until the entire parish had precedently been divided into districts, and that this division of the…