Ex parte Florence School
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Florence, September, 1894. Petition by the Board of Commissioners of the Florence Graded Schools for a writ of mandamus, requiring D. McDuffie, school commissioner for Florence County, to draw his warrant for certain school funds in favor of petitioners.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Ci-iiee Justice MoIver.
This was an application for a mandamus addressed to his honor, Judge Townsend. The petition alleges, in its first paragraph, that the persons therein named “constitute the board of commissioners of the Florence Graded Schools, created by an act of the General Assembly, entitled ‘an act to provide for the establishment of a new school district in the [then] County of Darlington; and to authorize the levy and collection of a local tax therein,’ approved December 24, 1883, and an act amendatory thereof, approved January 4,1894.”…
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