State ex rel. Griffith v. Bradbury

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The state asks this court to compel the defendants, who constitute the board of trustees of the Labette county community high-school district, to bring an action in their official capacity .against themselves individually to recover a considerable amount of the public funds of the district which defendants unlawfully expended in the purchase and operation of three motor busses *496to carry the pupils of the district to and from school. This action is more or less sequential to State, ex rel., v. Cruzan, 120 Kan. 316, 243 Pac. 329, where this…