Lynn v. Trustees of Schools

Mr. Presiding Justice Edwards

delivered the opinion of the court.

R. B. Lynn and others, as taxpayers of Township 16, Range 7, in Pope county, filed their bill for injunction against the school trustees of such township, to restrain them from prosecuting, by privately employed attorneys, a number of suits which they had instituted for the recovery of moneys accruing to the several school districts of the township, and from paying such attorneys therefor out of the public school funds of said township.

The bill avers that in April, 1931, the trustees of schools, claiming there was due and owing…