Dean v. Tallman

Ray Thornton, Justice.

This is an appeal of a chancellor’s order granting defendant-appellees’ motion for summary judgment in an illegal-exaction case. Appellant Michael Dean contends that when an ordinance of the county quorum court states a specific purpose for the tax proceeds, and the voters pass that ordinance, the State is precluded from distributing the proceeds to the county and cities of that county pursuant to the statutory per capita-distribution formula. The chancehor’s order granted summary judgment to less than all the defendants without making an express determination that there…