Jordan v. Board of Supervisors

Plaintiffs, as taxpayers of Tulare County, brought this action to enjoin the Board of Supervisors of Tulare County from erecting and constructing a new county courthouse on a tract of land outside of the present corporate limits of the city of Visalia and to restrain the county auditor and treasurer from expending any county funds in so doing. The action was tried before the court without a jury and plaintiffs appeal from the judgment rendered against them.

The county of Tulare was organized under the provisions of chapter 153 of the Statutes of 1852 and section 2 of that statute established…