Cooper v. School District of Kansas City

BARRETT, C.

This is a suit by six voters and taxpayers, “on their own behalf, and on behalf of all other parties and persons similarly situated,”, against the School District of Kansas City, its officers and board of directors and the county clerk of Jackson County. The purpose of the suit is- to restrain, by injunction, the school district and its secretary and directors from certifying to the county clerk that two-thirds of the qualified voters of the district, voting at a special election on March 28, 1950, approved a tax increase of thirty-eight cents on the one hundred dollar valuation…