Board of Public Instruction v. State Ex Rel. Barefoot

This case reaches us on writ of error from the premptory writ of mandamus issued by the circuit judge after the answers of the various respondents had been stricken and not thereafter amended.

From the initial pleading it appears that one of the relators on different occasions prior to November 6, 1934, lent to the board of public instruction for the exclusive use of the free public schools sums of money which aggregated $14,000. As the loans were made he accepted promissory notes, which were renewed from time to time and about March 1, 1937, the debtor executed to him a promissory note for…