Citizens' Committee for Old Age Pension v. Board of Supervisors

The question to be determined upon this appeal is whether the court abused its discretion in refusing a judgment for declaratory relief.

Plaintiff, alleging itself to be a taxpayer, brought this action (1) for an injunction to restrain defendant board of supervisors from approving and ordering the payment of an appropriation to defendant County Supervisors Association, and (2) for a judgment declaring the appropriation made by defendant board to defendant association in the 1947-48 budget to be illegal and unauthorized. When the order to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not issue…