Board of Education v. Van Zandt

The question involved in this controversy is. one of constitutional construction. The State Constitution prohibits cities, in addition to providing for the principal and interest of existing debt, from raising by taxation in any one year for “ city purposes ” amounts in excess of two per cent of the assessed valuation of the real and personal estate of the city. Art. VIII, § 10. The plaintiff, the board of education, seeks a construction limiting the term “ city purposes ” to those purely corporate or municipal as distinguished from those governmental or state, and the defendant, the board of…