Supreme Court of the United States April 28, 1930, 468 (Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education)

Me. Chief Justice Hughes

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellants, as citizens and taxpayers of the State of Louisiana, brought this suit to restrain the State Board of Education and other state officials from expending any part of the severance tax fund in purchasing school books and in supplying them free of cost to the school children of the State, under Acts No. 100 and No.