Lumberton Municipal Utility District v. Cease

KEITH, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendants from an order granting a temporary injunction restraining them from “levying any tax, or attempting to collect any tax, or to fix any tax rate, pending further orders of this Court.”

Defendants are Lumberton Municipal Utility District 1 and the individual members of its Board of Directors, and we will speak of the defendants collectively as “district.” Plaintiffs are resident taxpaying citizens of the district. The temporary injunction was granted after a lengthy hearing wherein many witnesses testified and many documents were offered in…