Kite Consolidated School District v. Clark

Hill, ,J.

1. Prior to the act of the legislature approved April 17, 1926 (Ga. L. 1926, p. 38), the trustees of local school districts were not authorized by law to borrow money for defraying the expenses of operating schools in such districts. Baggerly v. Bainbridge State Bank, 160 Ga. 556 (128 S. E. 766).

2. Even before the passage of the act of 1926, supra, the Supreme Court held: “Where money borrowed by the trustees of a school district was used in defraying the lawful current expenses of operating a school in such district for the year 1924, to the payment of which expenses school funds of…