Becknell v. Waters

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabrer.

This action was brought by the plaintiffs as freeholders and qualified electors of Switzer School District No. 41, in Spartanburg County, to compel the County Board of Education and E. C. Switzer and A. P. Walden, as trustees of that district, to hold an election for trustees thereof. The case involves construction of an Act of the Legislature (36 Stat. at Large, p. 28), approved February 8, 1929, entitled “An Act Repealing Section 2 of an Act entitled 'An Act Relating to the Election of School Trustees of Spartanburg County/…