Steele v. Board of Education

Mr. Presiding Justice Huffman

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellee instituted this suit as a taxpayer and resident of appellant school district, seeking to enjoin said district from providing free transportation for pupils residing without the territorial limits of the district. Upon a hearing of the cause, the court found for appellee and ordered injunction writ to issue as prayed. Appellants prosecute this appeal from said decree.

The substance of the complaint was that the defendant district was operating its busses in territory outside the limits of the district and furnishing free…