Board of Education v. Thurmond

Hines, J.,

dissenting. 1. Tlie decision of this case involves the power of county boards of education to borrow money, and to apply the public-school fund's of the counties to the payment of debts contracted by such boards. For a number of years the Board of Education of Monroe County contracted each year, with the Citizens Bank of Forsyth, debts in excess of the annual school revenues of the county. They ran behind for a period of from twelve to-eighteen months, and would each year borrow money with which to operate the schools. After applying all annual school funds of this county to the…