Flat Bayou Drainage District of Jefferson County v. Atkinson

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

S. L. Atkinson as a property-owner of Flat Bayou Drainage District sought to enjoin the Commissioners from petitioning County Court to levy additional taxes against predetermined bet-terments of $208,490.15 that were ascertained when the District was created under general laws in 1917. It was alleged that a new bond issue of $91,000 for use in reconditioning, reconstructing, and repairing proposed by the District (a) could not be sustained from residual tax sources because levies made from time to time had, in the aggregate, exceeded the benefits by 25.8%, and (b)…