State Board of Education v. Carwile

In these two cases the plaintiffs seek by mandamus to compel the State Board of Education to strike certain names from its list of those eligible for appointment by local boards to the position of division superintendent of schools.

*667They differ in some unimportant particulars, but when a certain controverted matter of law is determined, both of them will have been decided on their merits.

Code 1936, section 649, in part provides as follows:

“No one shall be eligible for appointment as division superintendent unless he meets the minimum qualifications set up by the State Board of Education, and…