Bayless v. Knox County

It is the duty of the Board of County Commissioners of Knox County to prepare annually a budget wherein is itemized in detail the various amounts of money required to maintain the county’s business for the fiscal year, including the salaries to be paid various county officials. Chapter 183, Private Acts of 1937. The Quarterly Court was required by writ of mandamus to fix such tax rate as would meet the budget which was prepared and submitted in July, 1955 to the Quarterly Court. Thereupon, taxpayers filed this bill to enjoin the payment *274of some of the items on the theory that some of them…