Betts v. . Jones

The plaintiff alleges that the school committeemen, disregarding known facts and the repeated protests of many patrons of Peach-land high school, in employing Wilson Jones “secured a driver known to them to be unfit, unsafe, nondependable, and reckless,” and that they acted wilfully, wrongfully, maliciously, and corruptly. By demurring the defendants admit these allegations. Andrews v. R. R., 200 N. C., 483; Yarborough v. Park Commission, 196 N. C., 284; Sandlin v. Wilmington, 185 N. C., 257.

The law as generally administered recognizes a distinction between public duties which are ministerial…