Brown v. McDaniel

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This began as a taxpayer’s suit brought in the Pulaski Circuit Court by Camille Lamar to enjoin the Pulaski County Board of Election Commissioners from conducting an election on March 12, 1968, for the selection of two directors of the Little Rock school board. When the parties realized that the proposed election of school directors involved in itself no avoidable expenditure of tax money, because an election had to be held anyway to submit another matter to the people, the plaintiff, as a patron of the district, amended her complaint to seek a declaratory judgment…