Board of Education v. Davis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The plaintiff commenced this action, one in mandamus, to compel the defendant to register $180,000 of school bonds issued by the plaintiff. The defendant has filed a motion to quash the alternative writ.

1. The first proposition urged by the defendant in support of his motion is “whether or not the board of education of the city of Pittsburg, Kansas, in the proceedings leading up [to] the issuance of the bonds in this case, asked for an issuance of bonds, and the voters at the election authorized the issuance of bonds in excess of the…