Denny v. . Mecklenburg County

Civil action to restrain the defendant Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County from issuing bonds in the sum of $96,000 to provide eight teacherages for the rural consolidated schools of the county.

Pursuant to the provisions of the County Finance Act, ch. 81, Public Laws 1927, and subsequent amendments, the question was duly submitted to a vote of the people and carried by a majority of the votes cast, but not by a majority of the qualified voters.

It is found as a fact that in the premises the defendants "are acting as an administrative agency of the State . . . to provide a State system…