Davis v. Orland Consolidated School District
Supreme Court of Georgia
• Validation of schoolbouse bonds. Before Judge E. D. Graham. Treutlen superior court. August 16, 1920. The solicitor-general of the Oconee Circuit filed'a petition seeking the validation of bonds to the value of twenty thousand dollars, proposed to be issued by Orland Consolidated School District, Treutlen County, the. proceeds to be used for the purpose of building and equipping a schoolhouse in said, district.
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• Validation of schoolbouse bonds. Before Judge E. D. Graham. Treutlen superior court. August 16, 1920. The solicitor-general of the Oconee Circuit filed'a petition seeking the validation of bonds to the value of twenty thousand dollars, proposed to be issued by Orland Consolidated School District, Treutlen County, the. proceeds to be used for the purpose of building and equipping a schoolhouse in said, district. The petition recited that a petition bearing'the signatures of more than one fourth of the registered qualified voters of the district requesting that an election be held to…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
1. The court did not err in overruling the demurrer filed by the intervenors to the amended petition and answer.
2. Assignments of error to which no reference is made in the brief of the plaintiff in error will be treated as abandoned.
3. It is contended that the act under which the election was held; is illegal and void, and that the bonds cannot be validated, for the reasons: (a) said act does not provide how or in what manner money to pay off the bonds shall be raised; (b) said act does not specify the property upon which nor the territory within which a tax for that purpose shall be levied;…
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