Southern School Supply Co. v. City of Abbeville

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

Under the act of the General Assembly approved August 1, 1895 (Ga. L. 1895, p. 117), creating a local system of schools for the City of Abbeville (then a town), a board of education to be selected by the mayor and council was vested with the exclusive control of the general fiscal affairs of the school system thereby established; and where the mayor and council levied, collected, and paid over to the board in a given year or years the maximmn tax allowed by the act, liabilities, though legally incurred by the board of education, were chargeable only against…