Curry v. Dawson

Frank Holt, Associate Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition. The petitioners are the defendants in a taxpayers’ suit now pending before the respondent Chancellor. The taxpayers’■ action was instituted by James 0. Young, and numerous other plaintiffs, to restrain and enjoin the defendants [petitioners], Bay Curry and other county officials, from the imposition and collection of a tax based upon a county election in which the voters in two townships had no opportunity to vote. The respondent overruled defendants’ demurrer to the complaint, refused to dismiss plaintiffs’ complaint…