Shofner v. Dowell

Appellants, wlio were plaintiffs below, are residents and taxpayers of Washington County, and, for their cause of action, alleged that, at the regular session of the quorum' court of that county, an illegal appropriation was made and an illegal tax levied.

It was further alleged that, at the meeting of the quorum court, a member thereof offered- a resolution which recited that the city of Fayetteville had for several years been endeavoring to have the streets around the University of Arkansas campus paved — that the adjacent property owners had petitioned for an improvement district to be…