Roll v. Carrollton Community Unit School District No. 1

Three taxpayers hied suit in the circuit court of Greene County against Carrollton Community Unit School District No. 1 and its board of education, seeking to restrain defendants from purchasing certain property as a school site, building a new high school thereon, and issuing bonds in the amount of $650,000. A motion to dismiss the complaint was sustained, and plaintiffs appeal to this court.

At an election held in the district on.February 8, 1954, four propositions were submitted to the voters. The first was whether the board should be authorized to purchase certain land for a school site…