State ex rel. Mantle v. McCuskey

GUNN, Judge.

Relators-taxpayers filed a mandamus action against Respondents, members of the Board of Education of Osage County Reorganized School District No. 2, to require Respondents to revise and lower the school district tax rate. The trial court initially executed an alternative writ of mandamus against Respondents but on motion quashed the writ on the basis that the Relators by payment of the school tax under protest had adequate remedy available to them. Relators have appealed the order quashing the alternative writ and on appeal raise as the sole issue whether payment of the school tax…