Frazier v. Board of Directors

Plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment dismissing their suit to annul the proceedings of the Eranklin parish school board authorizing a bond issue and a special tax to build a public schoolhouse in what is known as school district of ward No. 9. The bond issue was authorized by a majority vote, in both number and amount, of the property tax payers of the district.

The plaintiffs, eight in number, sued as property tax payers residing in the district. One of them, it is conceded, does not reside in school district of ward No. 9, or own property in the district, or in the parish, for that…