Russell v. Frank

This is a suit in equity brought by certain citizens and taxpayers of the School District of University City, Missouri, against the members of its Board of Education, their secretary, and the county clerk, collector, and treasurer of St. Louis County, in which said district is located. The object of the suit was to obtain a decree declaring illegal the levy of a school tax of forty-four cents on the one hundred dollar valuation “for building fund purposes,” and to enjoin the county clerk from extending the said levy on the tax- books. The tax mentioned had been authorized at a special…