Williams v. Childers

Certain citizens and taxpayers of the Wood Station subschool district of Catoosa county filed a petition against the board of trustees of that district, the county school commissioner, and the tax-collector, to enjoin them from collecting a tax claimed to have been authorized by virtue of an election under the Civil Code (1910), § 1535, providing for local taxation by school districts for the support of public schools. The ground of attack was that the board of education had not complied with the provisions of the law with reference to laying out the county into *92school districts and making a…