Whitmore v. Brown

—Original proceeding in mandate. The question recurs upon a general demurrer to the petition.

Petitioners are property owners in the city of Albany, a city operating under a freeholders’ charter adopted on the seventeenth day of January, 1927. Respondent is the Tax Collector of said city. The territory comprising the city constitutes an elementary school district and at the same time also constitutes a high school district, each of which said districts is duly organized as such as provided by law.

The question presented by this proceeding is the validity of the tax levy made by the trustees of…