Edmondson v. Holt

Certain citizens of the Fairview School District in Putnam County, Georgia, who are also patrons of the school district, filed petitions with the hoard of education of Putnam County, praying that the board order an election of trustees of the Fairview School district, to fill vacancies alleged to exist in said offices which had been held by L. A. Park and W. B. Black, the petition alleging that the terms of office of these two trustees had expired by operation of law in May, 1930. The board of education, in December 1933, refused to call the election. The present petition for mandamus was…