Holder v. Anderson

This case presents an instance in which the plaintiff may appropriately invoke the remedy of mandamus. The decision of this court in the case of Akerman v. Board of School Commissioners of Cartersville, 118 Ga. 334 (45 S. E. 312), was based on facts so nearly similar to those of the case under consideration that the ruling there made is controlling in the case now under consideration. It was there held that: “The remedy of mandamus may be invoked to compel the board of school commissioners of the City of Cartersville to give recognition to the rights of a member thereof whom his associates…