Los Angeles Heights Independent School Dist. v. Chestnut

A. J. Chestnut and Mrs. Noah Allen, describing themselves as resident taxpayers of the Los Angeles Heights independent school district, brought this action against that district, J. C. Arnold, the president of its board of trustees, W. E. Shaw, its secretary, and G. W. Mitchell, a contractor engaged in erecting a school building in the district. It was alleged that the board of trustees had passed a resolution, on September 7, 1926, to change, the location of the Woodlawn Hills public free school from its location on tracts 126, 127, and 128, block H, to tract 35, block B, the land first…