State ex rel. Post v. Board of Education
West Virginia Supreme Court
Application by Howard Post, for mandamus to the Board of Education of Clarksburg School District and others.
1Opinion of the Court
B'RANNON, PRESIDENT:
The school district of Clarksburg by vote authorized the in-currence of a debt and the issue of bonds for its payment, for the purpose of building one high school and two graded schools. The bonds were sold and their proceeds are in the treasury. The board of education refused to build the high school and one graded school out of such money, on the ground that to do so would call for the purchase of ground for their erection, and the board doubted its power to use any of the money coining from said bonds in acquiring such ground. Howard Post asks of this Court a mandamus…
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