Board of Sup'rs, Prentiss Co. v. McRee

Smith, C. JV,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee in his petition for a mandamus alleges that “he is the owner and holder of a large number of unpaid, valid and undisputed teachers pay certificates and school carriers pay certificates of the aggregate face value of $6,815.36,” copies of which were attached to the petition. After alleging that these certificates were outstanding and unpaid on March 25, 1936; were payable out of the common school fund; that there was no money in the treasury available for the payment thereof; and that the board of supervisors had declined to raise…