Court Opinion

ID: 9829461
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:19:26.722045+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:01.323569
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In a motion for rehearing filed by appellants it is urged that the allegations in the petition that the holding of the election would “cause an illegal and unnecessary expenditure of the public funds of said district and county to the amount of approximately $50” was a sufficient allegation of injury to plaintiffs as taxpayers of the district to entitle them to maintain this suit to enjoin the holding of the election.
AVe think a sufficient answer to this contention is that the order dissolving the in juncr tion theretofore issued against holding the election, from which this appeal is taken, was made on the day before said election was called to be held; and, as there was no provision in the order continuing in force the injunction against holding the election pending this appeal, the election presumably has long since been held, and it would be impossible for this court to now enjoin the holding of said election.
In so far as this appeal relates to the right of appellants to enjoin the holding of the election, it is manifest that no relief can now be granted them. The election having been held, if, as contended by appellants, there was no authority in the law for holding such election, its résult could not injure appellants, and therefore they are not entitled to enjoin the county judge from declaring such result.
The questions presented by the appeal are not free from doubt, but after mature consideration we feel constrained to adhere to the conclusions expressed in our main opinion, and the motion for rehearing is overruled.
Overruled.