Smith v. Kicklighter

Mobley, Justice.

The exception in this case is to an order making a writ of mandamus absolute and requiring the defendants as members of the Board of Education of Evans County to pay the plaintiff a sum of money equal to four cents per mile per month for each mile traveled during 1949-1950 in driving a school bus owned by the county, which sum is in addition to his basic salary as a driver. Under sec. 1 of the act of the General Assembly (Ga. L. 1947, p. 1461), the State Board of Education was authorized to use a part of the common-school funds to pay the salaries of bus drivers employed by…