Kimsey v. Board of Education, Unified School District 273

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, G:

This is a taxpayers’ suit to enjoin the issuance of $2,334,000 worth of bonds by the defendant board of education of Unified School District No. 273, Beloit. The trial court refused to enjoin the bonds, and the plaintiff taxpayers have appealed.

In question is an election held February 26, 1972, at which the bond proposition carried by a vote of 1388 for, to 1163 against. Plaintiffs claim several procedural deficiencies and irregularities, some of which they assert are serious enough, standing alone, to invalidate the election, and some of which…