King v. Board of Sup'rs
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of Pontotoc county. Hon. A. J. McIntyre, Chancellor. - Proceedings by the board of supervisors of Pontotoc county to validate a bond issue, wherein W. J. King and another filed objections as taxpayers. From a decree of validation, objectors appeal. The whole scheme of the law Avith reference to consolidated school districts is unconstitutional in that it deprives the citizen of his property AAdthout due process of law.
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Appeal from chancery court of Pontotoc county. Hon. A. J. McIntyre, Chancellor. - Proceedings by the board of supervisors of Pontotoc county to validate a bond issue, wherein W. J. King and another filed objections as taxpayers. From a decree of validation, objectors appeal. The whole scheme of the law Avith reference to consolidated school districts is unconstitutional in that it deprives the citizen of his property AAdthout due process of law. No valid order of the county school board is shown establishing the Hoyle consolidated school district. It is true that the constitutionality of the…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
This was a proceeding under the bond validation statute (chapter 28, Laws 1917), to validate the bonds of Hoyle consolidated school district in Pontotoc county, *498which bonds were, when said proceeding was begun, in process of issuance and sale by the board of supervisors of that county. Appellants, taxpayers of said consolidated school district, filed in accordance with section 2 of said act objections to the issuance of said bonds. There was a hearing before the chancery court and a decree rendered under said act validating said bonds, from which appellants prosecute this appeal.
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