Rankin v. Cowden

This was a bill in chancery by appellants to enjoin the isuance and negotiation of $5,000 of bonds voted to build a high school building in township ten, range four, in Henderson county.

The bill alleges that on the 13th of April, 1895, an election was held in the above mentioned township upon the proposition to establish a high school for the township, at which more votes were cast for the proposition than against it, and that it was declared carried by the judges. That the election was not held under the Australian ballot law of 1891, but under sections 38 and 39 of the school act; that…