Tuttle v. Beem

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court dismissing the suit of the plaintiffs who are taxpayers in school district No. 41 of Union county, instituted for the purpose of securing an injunction to restrain the defendants (the school district, its officials and two individuals who are well drillers) from expending the school district’s funds in payment of a claim asserted by the two well drillers.

School District No. 41, one of the defendants, is a school district of Union county, and, due to the fact that it serves only eight or nine pupils, is a third class district (§35-902,…