Board of Council v. Board of Education

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

The Board of Council of the city of Winchester prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of the Clark circuit court compelling it by a writ of mandamus, awarded at the suit of the Board of Education of the city of Winchester, to amend the tax levy made in July, 1916, for school purposes, by increasing it from 40 cents, as then fixed, to 48-J cents on each hundred dollars of taxable property in the city of Winchester.

As the total assessed value of all property in the city subject to taxation for the year 1916 is $5,793,480.00, the levy of 48-J cents…