Lively v. Board of Education

Woods, President :

Relator seeks, by mandamus, to require the board of education, of Kanawha county to issue, and the county superintendent of schools, as financial secretary, to countersign, a warrant in payment of legal services rendered at the behest of the board of education of Charleston Independent School District after the passage of chapter 8, Acts Extraordinary Session 1933, known as “County School Unit Act”, the constitutionality of which was, at the time of relator’s employment, being seriously questioned.

Respondents, on demurrer, take the position (1) that the independent school…