State Ex Rel. Wendling Bros. v. Board of Education

The decisive question presented by the demurrers is the nature of the provisions of Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 175 passed by the 90th General Assembly March 30, 1933.

The act is entitled: “To limit the borrowing of money by boards of education, and to provide for the funding of existing indebtedness, and to declare an emergency.” Section 3 of the act reads as follows:

“Upon receiving the certificate of net floating indebtedness from the auditor of state each board of education having any such indebtedness in excess of four hundred dollars may proceed to issue the bonds of the school…