In Re: Authority Alachua Bd. Pub. Instruction

In August 1947, the Board of Public Instruction of Alachua County filed its petition in the proper form alleging that the War Assets Administration was offering for sale certain lands in Clay County, known as the Crystal Lake Site, that petitioner was in need of said lands for educational purposes and was willing and able to purchase them, but being in doubt of its authority to do so, prayed the Court to determine by declaratory decree whether it had authority under the law to purchase said lands in aid of the public school program of Alachua County.

At final hearing the Court answered…